I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.
Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!
Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.
All In' is not my baby, it's my brother or my cousin. We sold out a 10,000 seat arena in less than 30 minutes, and that, to me, says a lot about the health of wrestling outside of the machine.
If you're a suburban kid, and you're 30 minutes from New York City, that's the luckiest thing in the world.
I was born in Chicago, then I spent most of my youth in Joliet, Illinois which is about thirty minutes south, and I went to a military academy for high school in Wisconsin. Then I went to college, on a basketball scholarship to a small school in Iowa, so I'm like Mr. Midwest.
To combat the monotony of gym workouts, I started playing soccer. I looked at workouts as training sessions. My soccer training includes squats, pushups, resistance-band work, and sprints. Ninety minutes of running became part of my love of the game rather than a chore.
I was logging 15-hour days, sampling food every minute. I had access to these amazing dishes, and it was easy to lose sight of how quickly the bites added up.
That's the show. it's like 5 minutes of science and then 10 minutes of me hurting myself.
You try and take every kick exactly the same, no matter if it's the beginning or the last minute.
