Jason Statham: Yeah, he worked with a lot of the guys on 300. [Matthew] Logan Hood, his name is. He’s an ex-Navy Seal. He’s like a machine. He’s very knowledgeable, and a great motivator. I did about 10 weeks with him and was on a very strict diet, and it all just fell away.

Jason Statham: It’s hard to say. The track was made of bits and pieces. We shot in different locations and made it look like it was one big track, but there were different locations to make up the different areas. We were not really going as fast as you might imagine, but it’s pretty fast. It depends on what you call fast.

Jason Statham: Not very well. That presented a big problem. So, I didn’t drive in that thing.

Jason Statham: Yeah. They made different ones with bigger eye pieces. They had various ones. It was all to do with the aesthetics. They didn’t give a sh*t whether I could see or not, really.

Jason Statham: No. I haven’t seen it. Paul asked me not to see it, until after the movie. He just didn’t want anything that would interfere with his idea of the film. It’s not a remake. It’s just an homage. So, he said, “If you can, try not to see it.”

Jason Statham: I had more than my shirt off. I was naked in the prison scene.

Jason Statham: That’s one of the most enjoyable films I’ve shot in the last decade. It is absolutely madder than you could imagine.

Jason Statham: No. It is nuts. It’s like the first one times 100. It’s just ridiculous.

Jason Statham: Not particularly. I do like the odd one or two.

Jason Statham: I like The Matrix. I thought that was a good one. I thought Blade Runner was great. It has to be done well.

Jason Statham: We hope so. We’re always trying to make it go that way.

Jason Statham: I wanted to make it better than the first two. I always thought the first one was the best one, for me. I thought we could do better with the second one. We’re always trying to do better. We just need more time and more money, and that’s hard to get. If we were indulged with a little bit more money, a bit more of a budget, more time, more preparation, we could do something really, really good, but sometimes we don’t get that. I think the third one is probably the best out of the three.

Jason Statham: Yes, I see Robert Downey and speak to him. Yes, it seems like a very exciting project for them both to get stuck into.

Jason Statham: I don’t know. We’ll see. We’ll see what happens. Dr. Watson maybe? Who knows?

Jason Statham: Yeah. I really liked that movie called Hard Times. That’s a great movie. It’s hard to remake something that’s done so well so it’s probably best just to leave it alone. Yeah, that was one of my favorite Bronson movies.

Jason Statham: Death Race 2000, like you said, has almost a bad quality to it. With Hard Times, it’s quite the contrary. It’s a classic, a great movie. It would be hard to remake because it was done so well, so I think that’s the problem.

Jason Statham: I like the old Aston Martins, the BB5’s. I’m a big fan of those and the early Jags, the XK120’s, E Types, just to mention a few British cars. I also like a lot of the muscle cars. I mean the Shelby Cobra. My friend’s got a really beautiful version and he won’t let me drive it. I don’t know why.

Jason Statham: I drive a 2008 GT2 Porsche, the new one, and I’ve got an Audi that I kick around in as well as they say.

Jason Statham: No, it’s a black one.

Jason Statham: You know I drive a lot of the Audi’s. That was an S5 that they loaned me for a weekend to kick around in. I had an R8 for a weekend. I’m a big fan of the Audi’s.

Jason Statham: The SRT and all those? Yeah, they’re pretty good. They’re nice and lively, but there’s nothing like a German built car though. They’re so solid, you know, they just last forever. If I’m spending my money, that’s what I’m going to buy to have a bit of fun. I know there’s a Zed-06. That’s a fast car. The American muscle cars are very, very powerful, you know, like the Vipers and all that. They’re ridiculous. They’re so hard to control unless you know what you’re doing. You’ll end up wrapped around a tree.

Jason Statham: I’ve always liked cars since I was a kid. It’s not like I have posters on the wall or miniatures strung around the house, you know. I just like cars. It’s not like I’m a fanatic. Like a stamp collector only with cars.

Jason Statham: Yeah. Have you ever driven fast before?

Jason Statham: If you ever go to a track, if you ever go-cart racing, it’s really exciting. There’s a great go-kart track no so far from where I live back in the U.K. We’ve been there many times. In fact, when we made Snatch, we took Brad and Benicio and the whole cast of Snatch go-carting. Yeah, we had a great time. It was a great day. Obviously I won.

Jason Statham: I’ve never seen anyone as good as Mark Neveldine period. He’s completely amazing on a set of skates and fearless to the point of suicide. He’s really quite…you know, it’s very worrying some of the stuff. Yeah. I don’t know how they let him get away with it.

Jason Statham: You know, that’d be good actually. We had so much fun. When we finished Crank 2, we said “Shall we do another one?” Literally. I said “Yeah. F*ck it! Let’s do Crank 3 in 3-D.” So, yeah, I’m sure the next episode will not be too far away.

Jason Statham: Yeah. Already. We were three quarters of the way through it and we went ”Ummm,” because we knew we were making something really far out and original. And then I said, “Why let this be the last one? Let’s do another one. What about Crank 3 in 3-D?”