Peter Berg Quotes

I believe that anything in this world is fair game for a creative exercise.

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.

Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose.

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.

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.

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 fun to kind of watch that happen.

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

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

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 each other.

Every movie has its own unique series of challenges.

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

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

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 is often times not what you thought.

To get audiences to go see a film is a completely separate issue.

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

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

Michael Mann's always been one of my heroes.

I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever.

I don't like alien films where you don't get to see the aliens.

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 politics of social love.

I like films that are about two hours not more.

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

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 taken with her charisma and her confidence.