“I go back home for Christmas every year. Inevitably, somebody from my ...” — Riley Stearns Quote

“I go back home for Christmas every year. Inevitably, somebody from my family will say, 'How's the karate going?' I've told them a million times I do jiu-jitsu, but it's always, 'This is Riley. He does karate.' They're very different art forms!”

“I was really interested in doing a martial arts movie, but maybe exploring ideas that maybe you wouldn't think to explore in a martial arts movie.”

“I would say the biggest challenge on any film is always time.”

“I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms.”

“It dawned on me that comics were not an intrinsically limited medium. There was a tremendous amount of things you could do in comics that you couldn't do in other art forms - but no one was doing it. I figured if I'd make a try at it, I'd at least be a footnote in history.”

“Blues is one of the most important art forms. It's an amazing music, and we don't want to lose it.”