There's A Picture Of The Real Coach Gary Gaines In The Book And He's Sitting In The Locker Room After A Game, And He Just Looks So Much Like Billy Bob, That We Went To Him.
One Of The Things That's Fascinating About Making Movies Is A Movie When It's Done And You Start Showing It To People, It Reveals Its Impact, Which Is Often Times Not What You Thought.
I Had Great Luck With Tim Mcgraw Twice In 'friday Night Lights' And 'the Kingdom.' I Love Finding Off-beat Casting And Finding Someone You Know In One Way And You Reinvent Them In Another Way. I Like Doing That As A Director.
The Big Fun In Battleship Is That There Are No Current Battleships In The Navy Today. The Battleships Are About 1,000 Feet Long And They Have Huge Guns. They Were What You Saw In Wwii. The Last Battleship That Was Used Was The Missouri, Which Is What The Japanese Surrendered To...
The Way You Set Up For A Sequel Is By Having A Successful Film. The Focus Is On Making A Successful Film, And Making A Film That Travels Around The World, And That People Enjoy And Have Fun With, And That People Are Able To Escape With.
I Think The Biggest Challenge Was Being Aware Of A Certain Audience That Was Going To See This Film [lone Survivor]. There's A Big Difference From A Typical Movie, Journalists And Critics And Film Goers That Go See It Find That, That's The General Experience You Have As A Filmmaker. So That Just Kind Of Proves My Point That There's A Really Different Audience.
I Think Musicians Oftentimes Have The Right Skill Set To Be Good Actors. And With Rihanna, I Noticed Her And Knew Of Her Obviously, And Was Very Taken With Her Charisma And Her Confidence.
You're In The Middle Of Making A Movie And This Part Of The Process Is Always Very Interesting. Because You Think What You're Making Your Movie Is And Then You Start Putting It Out There, And Then People Tell You What Your Movie Is.
You Might Make A Lot Of Money, But It's Very Hard To Get Out From Under That Rug. The More You Can Reinvent Yourself, The Better - And Unfortunately Tv Is Designed Not To Let You Redesign Yourself.
There's No Hidden Agenda, No Political Agenda [in Patriots Day]. The Only Politics We Were Really Talking About Was The Politics Of Community, The Politics Of Social Love.
I Was In New York 9/11. Mark's [wahlberg] From Boston, Flew There Immediately After. I Was In Nice Bastille Day When The Truck Drove Through And Killed All These People. It's The New Reality, Unfortunately. The Idea Of Trying To Explore How We Process This Kind Of Event, How We Survive Emotionally, What We Tell Our Kids: That Was The Movie [patriots Day] We Wanted To Make.
