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..

Be really picky with your hiring, and hire the absolute best people you possibly can. People are the most important component of almost every busines….

Hollywood is not stupid, contrary to popular belief; it's really a lot of intelligent people trying to figure things out..

I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's footbal….

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….

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….

I'm pretty upfront about my love and admiration for the military. One of the perks of making movies is that you get to sort of follow your own passio….

I did not want 'Battleship' to be perceived as an American war film. I wanted to do everything I could to make the film accessible to a global audien….

I tend to not have to handle things that are probably gonna end up being irrelevant, that aren't gonna have much to do with the film. I have probably….

What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?.

You look for inspiration, I do, that got me going..

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 w….

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 on….

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 i….

People know I love to shoot action and that I'm not afraid of emotion..

One of the challenges assembling the film was that gun fight went on for three and a half hours and we obviously couldn't spend three and a half hour….

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 sa….

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 po….

It's always an interesting sort of adventures that gets someone into a movie..

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 kill….

I try to preload as little as I can. I like to come to the set with minimal preparation..