“I’m not the kind of guy that got into this to be famous.”
“The best thing about this [being an actor] is being able to learn from, and act with, your heroes.”
[Portraying a geek is] “Fun. I’m not the kind of guy kids picked on in school, but I’ve seen it happen. I’ve never really given much thought to being cool. I don’t really think about it one way or the other.”
[On filming the fight between Luke and Percy from the movie Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief ] “That was about a month of filming just to do that one sequence. We learned so much. We had to learn how to fly, be in wires and make it look good.Go down rooftops while having to swing at invisible lightning bolts being shot at you. It was a pretty crazy experience and I was completely blown away when I saw it onscreen.”
“The film makers are the true movie stars.”
[The difference between stunting in Percy Jackson & The Three Musketeers] “See, in Percy Jackson, I didn’t know what I was doing. Which is good because Percy didn’t either. Now you get to ‘Three Musketeers’ and I have to look like a total badass.”
“In my free time, my favorite thing to do is to pick up a different instrument and you know, just kinda learn it and experiment.”
[On creating his characters] “I have to make everything perfect. All the mannerisms. I make their walk, their speech, everything.”
[On the stunts & effects in Percy Jackson] It’s a good thing Percy didn’t know what he was doing, because I would watch the film and you could tell that I had that ‘holy crap’ face on.”
“You know, acting’s the hobby. You know, you can’t take this job too seriously. We’re the guys that pretend to be other people, which is a lot of fun. But the art is in filmmaking. The real genius. And, you know, being a fan of movies, studying every single film, every little aspect of film—I mean, yeah, my dream really, my job, my goal in life is to be a good filmmaker. But the acting is just something we would do every day, I’d say, but now we get to get paid for it.”
“I started when I was seven, technically, because I just wanted to get out of school and do something else. I’m a creative person; I don’t like to be in a classroom very much. I teach myself everything, usually, and when I was like twelve years old my mom sat me down and said, “Do you really want to do this?” and I said, “Yeah. I really do. I actually have a passion.” So that’s when I really started.
