The movie on the screen is always going to be different from the movie in your head. How it makes you feel is what I'm after, what I'm chasing, and w…

- David Ayer

I think a good director can embrace any genre and it's the kind of thing where you always want to do something different. You always want to challeng…

- David Ayer

When you put a movie together, you're continually screening it for yourself and you're screening it for other people. It's like a video game power me…

- David Ayer

I like to do stuff real and practical and in camera, as much as possible. I like old school filmmaking.

- David Ayer

The hardest thing, as a director, is that it's never right. Nothing you do is ever right. It's never exactly how you envision it. Making a movie is a…

- David Ayer

I'm one of those big believers that the movie comes together in the way it's supposed to be and that movies are fated to become what they become.

- David Ayer

You hear again and again that audiences want to see movies that are different and critics say we [directors] make the same thing again and again in H…

- David Ayer

The movie has to be going somewhere. Other than that, you want it to be entertaining, but people usually disagree on what entertaining is and everybo…

- David Ayer

I'm all about real drama, real performance, and real people, so my twist on this is: I'm creating a family, a brotherhood here. I'm creating a very r…

- David Ayer