Quotes from Esme Creed-Miles

Women should not only be doing action on-screen but should be a part of every other aspect of filmmaking.

Fight prep, boxing, cardio, stretching. It's almost like dancing, you have to learn to dance and keep practicing it.

Stunt people are amazing at what they do, but they're not actors.

Obviously, for safety reasons, there's some stuff I can't do, but fighting is more than just about nailing the moves accurately, to sort of pull off the stunt sequence. It's also about bringing emotion to it and character.

Even if an actor might not nail the moves in a way than a stunt person might, I wanted to bring the character of 'Hanna' into everything that she did.

My parents are really, really talented and really good at what they do, so I've always learned from watching them. But their style is something that you can't really learn. They never went to drama school and neither did I.

What my parents have given me is what I would call a healthy entitlement.

I had to learn martial arts.