I Believe That Anything In This World

Working With Composers Often Is A Really Frustrating Experience Because You Speak A Different Language And, Oftentimes, They Take Two Or Three Jobs, At The Same Time. They're Difficult And Pretentious And They're Tormented Artists.

I Wanted To Do A Naval Film And I Flirted With Different Ideas, Most Of Which Ended Up Being Too Intense. So When The Idea Of 'battleship' Was First Suggested, I Was Instantly Drawn To The Challenge - Could I Invent A Movie Around The Idea Of Five Ships Fighting Five Ships?

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 Killed All These People. It's The New Reality, Unfortunately. The Idea Of Trying To Explore How We Process This Kind Of Event, How We Survive Emotionally, What We Tell Our Kids: That Was The Movie [patriots Day] We Wanted To Make.

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.

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.