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Crave Online: What insight have you gained about police by playing cops?

Samuel L. Jackson: It happens. I don't know how many cops I've played. If you do enough movies you're going to play cops a lot. You play cops and you play bad guys. A lot of stories are about bad guys vs. good guys. I've been trained by the LAPD, the SWAT team, the Secret Service, FBI, CIA, Navy Seals, the Marines, Army, Navy. So I have a lot of gun training and a lot of law enforcement training. It's been kind of cool being able to do all that stuff and fire live weapons and see if you're able to use them, and kind of watch police procedure and talk to cops about what they really do and what they really don't do.

Crave Online: What do they do?

Samuel L. Jackson: Take care of each other. Protect and serve.

Crave Online: You did The Spirit with first-time solo director Frank Miller. How did he do?

Samuel L. Jackson: It's cool. Frank was very egoless in terms of what we were doing on The Spirit. [His] first film, I've done like 113 movies.  So, occasionally I would say, "Hey Frank, do you mind if I do...?" "Sure, go ahead. Try it." He was okay with that. The cinematographer was going, "Yeah, that's a good idea. Mind if we do it this way rather than that way?" So he's very open to things we wanted to do. Having a playwright be a director, I've only had that one other time. That was on Changing Lanes, because Roger Michell directed plays also. It's great to have people who are more concerned about character and story than guys who are sitting there looking at a monitor worrying about the composition of the shot, because that's what the majority of young directors are doing. How can we dazzle the people with our camerawork? To me the story is important so the things I bring to a film are my character development, a little backstory, honesty, some reality and somebody that's willing to pay more attention to what we're doing in terms of getting information to the audience and having them pay attention to us as the actors aside from looking at this really slick camera move. It's very important to us as performers.

Crave Online: Do you see a more optimistic Frank Miller, because he was disillusioned after Robocop II?

Samuel L. Jackson: I'm sure he is until you guys finish with him. We'll see what happens. Frank's made the film that he wanted to make. Hopefully, it will be that. The film comes out and people will talk about it and either he'll be thick-skinned or bruised by it. Even happens to seasoned directors. Happened to Quentin. You guys made Quentin go away and go, "Oh! Oh!"

Crave Online: At Comic Con it looked very far out there.

Samuel L. Jackson: It's a cartoon. The movie is a cartoon to me. I don't know what anybody else is gonna think it is, but to me it's a cartoon. We do Wile E. Coyote kind of stuff. I hit him in the head with toilets. We've got wrenches that are as big as this room. Clang! I hit him with the wrench and he gets up. We're both pretty much indestructible and I created him so I know he's indestructible and I use the stuff on myself, made myself indestructible. We're the only two people that are like that, so we do outrageous things to each other. Even when I get shot I kind of shake bullets out of my head. It's a cartoon. It's so kind of outrageous and crazy and over the top. I get to wear all these outrageous costumes. I mean, come on, I dress up like a Nazi in this movie. I have lightning bolt eyebrows. It's fun!

Crave Online: How much will you be involved in Iron Man II?

Samuel L. Jackson: You know I'm in it? I haven't seen anything. I just hope they call when they do it. Stranger things have happened.

Crave Online:  Are you trying to get your place in Inglorious Bastards?

Samuel L. Jackson: He's gone already. I talked to him the day he was leaving for Bavaria to start shooting. We had a short discussion. There is only one black guy in the movie and he's French.  Well, okay let me give you the names of the French black actors I know. I gave him a list of guys he should call and he was going to do that.  He said, "I'll see you when I get back." No more black guys in the movie.

Crave Online: What's going on with Afro-Samurai?

Samuel L. Jackson: The second season is pretty much done. I just did the finishing voiceover stuff on it last week. The videogame is pretty much done. I finished the voice work on that. Hopefully, everything will be launching in January. I actually just got the first draft of the live action Afro Samurai script. So hopefully we'll get that up and running.