I allow myself to get firmly sucked in. I love that! I come from that.

- Dan Trachtenberg

I've always been a fan of [Mary Elizabeth Winstead's]. She gets to do some fun action-y stuff she brings this gritty swashbuckle to. I think there's …

- Dan Trachtenberg

I grew up loving Ridley Scott and Tony Scott and Michael Bay and Adrian Lyne.

- Dan Trachtenberg

One of the first cassette tapes I ever purchased was the Rambo III score. I was not allowed to see Rambo, but my mom would allow me to buy the music,…

- Dan Trachtenberg

I was very excited to hone in on John Goodman. Casting John first really set the tone. He's very good at being terrifying and being hilarious, and I …

- Dan Trachtenberg

I spent a long time trying to make it in the commercial world hoping that commercials would then lead to movies. That was a less-travelled path at th…

- Dan Trachtenberg

A lot of the commercials that I was doing were very slice-of-life, emotional, documentary-style, not big and cinematic and ultimately like the kind o…

- Dan Trachtenberg

I've definitely seen things that have made me laugh. And there's some things that are really smart and like, "Oh man, we should have done that, that'…

- Dan Trachtenberg