Dwayne Johnson on his acting career.

“It serves my interests, personally, how I like to operate. You’ve got to go by instinct and I love the fact that I’ve been able to go from genre to genre and find a little bit of success in each. I think that’s been really good for me and not be afraid to challenge myself, [and] not be afraid to step out of the box. I think it’s very important, too, early on in my career, to make sure that I wasn’t only doing action movies, which would’ve been the easy thing to do. I want to grow as an actor and do comedies and quirky stuff like this.”

On fitting The Game Plan into his own game plan:

“The Game Plan was very significant in many ways. I wanted to do a big comedy and I was waiting for the right opportunity to find that, whatever it was. I found it with a company I’ve been wanted to do business with for a long time. The timing of it was great in terms of becoming a parent and having a child, and she’s six and it’s Disney. It’s all of those things which she was very excited about. As a parent you want to share your work with your children and for a long time I couldn’t show her any of my movies, so it was significant in that respect. The box-office success with The Game Plan was very significant because it allows you a lot more freedom and that’s what happens in Hollywood.”

The status of Agent 23 (Get Smart):

“It’s great! I just met with Pete Seagul, who directed Get Smart, last night and it’s great. Our first testing tested at 90, which is really tremendous. It was great working with Steve Carell, he’s fantastic and Alan Arkin is really tremendous.”

Dwayne Johnson on why people should see Southland Tales.

“I think people should go see it if they want to be challenged when they watch a movie, because there are a lot of metaphors and, frankly, the movie is very interpretative in my opinion, Richard may tell you something different, but I don’t think either one of us are wrong. When you watch the movie and whatever you take from it, the themes, the metaphors, the characters; you’re not wrong.