Occupation: Actor Birth: March 11, 1962
People know I love to shoot action and that I'm not afraid of emotion..
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….
Every movie has its own unique series of challenges..
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 take….
I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever..
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….
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….
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 have a tradition of working with actors, over and over again. I've worked with Jason Bateman, over and over again. You get to know an actor, and yo….
I like films that are about two hours not more..
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….
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….
I'm much more collaborative than I probably was when I was first starting, much more willing to say, "I don't know the answer to that." I have really….
I think I've been fortunate enough to have a fairly long career and hopefully I'm at the middle of it now. And I think I'm starting to develop a cert….
I don't like alien films where you don't get to see the aliens..
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 ….
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….
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 gu….
The first movie I literally ever made in my life was about two guys playing Stratego with each other. I had all my friends dressing up like the milit….
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….
What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?.