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Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose.
Michael Mann's always been one of my heroes.
I like films that are about two hours not more.
You look for inspiration, I do, that got me going.
Every movie has its own unique series of challenges.
Where do you go to buy back your reputation when you lose it?
I don't like alien films where you don't get to see the aliens.
To get audiences to go see a film is a completely separate issue.
People know I love to shoot action and that I'm not afraid of emotion.
Obama really is a warrior in chief. He's not afraid to get the job done.
I believe that anything in this world is fair game for a creative exercise.
Before boxing, I was this angry kid ready to fight if someone said, 'Hello.'
It's always an interesting sort of adventures that gets someone into a movie.
What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?
There's a truth to the violence of boxing. You have a very real threat, an opponent.
I'm a patriot. I admire our military, their character, code of honor, belief systems.
I don't think about awards when I set out to do something. If that happens, it's great.
I try to preload as little as I can. I like to come to the set with minimal preparation.
The SEALs rarely call the Taliban 'terrorists' because they respect them as worthy opponents.
I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever.
I love actors. I'm empathetic to them. I understand what they go through. But I didn't want to be an actor.
I found at a certain point in my acting career that I was just bored. I had too much energy. I had too many ideas.
Boxing is not always about standing in the middle going toe to toe. It's about poise and grace under extreme pressure.
Hollywood is not stupid, contrary to popular belief; it's really a lot of intelligent people trying to figure things out.
You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just be open to anything.
I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.
I'm a huge sports fan. I love the psychology of athletes and the culture of athletics. I'm constantly drawn to those kinds of stories.
Generally, studios are adverse to making films about war in the Middle East. They'd much rather make a film with a superhero or an alien or a robot.
Some directors want to make superhero films. That's what gets them off, and they love it, and they love sci-fi. I prefer putting my hands into non-fiction.
I've always found boxing to be an incredibly pure sport. The level of character of most fighters I find very high. And it's just the best workout you can get.
I don't go to a lot of other directors' sets; directors don't come to mine. Directors are all very cordial with each other, but they're not necessarily friendly.
We're both [with Mark Wahlberg] capable of being sarcastic, vicious, violent lunatics, but we hold each other in check, appeal to the best aspects of each other.
When I look back at it, I'm mostly amazed at how poorly it was shot. David Kelley is a great writer, and I thought the scripts were great, but it just looks so cheap.
Then they started pulling me in and I was very resistant. All the other actors would be saying write more, more dialogue for me, and I'd always be saying 'No, less, less'.
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.
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.
The more you learn about the science of boxing, the more appreciation you have for man's ability to think and perform in violent situations, and that's what interests me in film.
Life is, and should be, a little hard. Getting punched in the face or getting an occasional concussion will probably happen to us all at some point in our lives. We can handle it.
It's always funny to me how your movie becomes no longer yours and people interpret it how they want and react how they want to react to it, and it's fun to kind of watch that happen.
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 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 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.
For me, concussion response is pure common sense. We can all probably handle a few mild concussions. I have had at least three, and despite my detractors' opinions, I am mentally and physically fine.
I was very impressed with Davis Guggenheim's 'An Inconvenient Truth.' He's inspired me as one of the newer, cutting-edge documentary filmmakers. I see those films, and I'm just instinctively drawn to them.
Truth is, we offered it to Tom Hanks, which pretty much every movie in America does, but Tom passed. Billy Bob said that Hanks recently called and said he's voting for all of us for Oscars, he loved the film.
I've spent enough time with soldiers to know that once they get to know you and they loosen up and become themselves, they are some of the biggest hams and most charismatic, cocky, fun, humorous guys I've ever met.
If I could find a way to make a film that takes you into the mind of a fighter, where you have 36 minutes of combat with so many different emotions, so many highs and lows, so many obstacles to overcome, I'd do that.
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.
What first caught my eye about Rihanna was an interview she did with Diane Sawyer after the Chris Brown incident, where she was very articulate, very poised, obviously a smart girl who talked about a very traumatic experience.
Be really picky with your hiring, and hire the absolute best people you possibly can. People are the most important component of almost every business, and attracting the best talent possible is going to make a huge difference.