Anton Brzezinski

I was extremely influenced by Japanese films and even anime. I was very impressed that their heroes and heroines think, hesitate, doubt, and have emotions. I love the USA, but while our cartoons are about animals hitting other animals with hammers, Japanese cartoons, even those for children are about feelings and honor. Sometimes a shot is just about how breathtaking the sunlight reflecting off a drop of dew is, or the way the light at sunset changes colors. And then come the swords and the monsters and it's hard core violence. I'm trying to create an epic fantasy with this kind of brutality tempered by beauty and sensitivity.

Since I was a little boy I loved Swashbuckler movies. I watched all the old movies with Errol Flynn as a pirate or Robin Hood, and read the books they were based on like Captain from Castille by Raphael Sabatini. I wanted to be in the new films like The Three Musketeers and the Conan series, I grew up near Hollywood, so when I turned twenty I moved there, got an agent and tried to be an actor.