Latest Peter Berg Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  Peter Berg

  Sarcastic, Violent, Checks

  Source: ew.com

• 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.

  Peter Berg

  Talking, Community, Political

  Source: ew.com

• 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.

  Peter Berg

  New York, Nice, Kids

  Source: ew.com

• I like films that are about two hours not more.

  Peter Berg

  Two, Film, Hours

  Source: collider.com

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

  Peter Berg

  Issues, Film, Audience

  Source: collider.com

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

  Peter Berg

  Preparation, Trying, Littles

  Source: collider.com

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

  Peter Berg

  Inspiration, Looks

  Source: collider.com

• You're in the middle of making a movie and this part of the process is always very interesting. Because you think what you're making your movie is and then you start putting it out there, and then people tell you what your movie is.

  Peter Berg

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Peter Berg

  Fun, People, Watches

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Peter Berg

  Jobs, Artist, Often Is

  Source: collider.com

• 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 talented people and let them do their jobs and not try to control everything as much as I did when I was starting. I was a bit more insecure.

  Peter Berg

  Jobs, Insecure, People

  Source: collider.com

• 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 a better understanding of really what does matter, when to pick my battles and when to kind of let them go.

  Peter Berg

  Understanding, Battle, Doe

  Source: collider.com

• 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 certain amount of experience and a certain amount of wisdom about kind of what really matters and what doesn't matter.

  Peter Berg

  Thinking, Careers, Long

  Source: collider.com

• One of the challenges assembling the film was that gun fight went on for three and a half hours and we obviously couldn't spend three and a half hours of the film with one gun fight. It was trying to figure out the balance of how much an audience could take before they either became repulsed or desensitized or bored or just overwhelmed.

  Peter Berg

  Fighting, Gun, Bored

  Source: collider.com

• 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 typical movie, journalists and critics and film goers that go see it find that, that's the general experience you have as a filmmaker. So that just kind of proves my point that there's a really different audience.

  Peter Berg

  Thinking, Differences, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

• 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 you get a certain trust and a comfort, and you become really good friends, and you feel like you've got a short-hand.

  Peter Berg

  Good Friend, Hands, Comfort

  Source: collider.com

• 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 world, and that people enjoy and have fun with, and that people are able to escape with.

  Peter Berg

  Fun, Successful, People

  "Peter Berg Talks BATTLESHIP, the FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS Movie, and the Upcoming NBC Series PRIME SUSPECT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 01, 2011.

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

  Peter Berg

  Stupid, Intelligent, People

  "Director Peter Berg on Aliens, Rihanna & the Marketing Of ‘Battleship’". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. March 22, 2012.

• 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.

  Peter Berg

  Impact, People, Done

  Source: collider.com

• Every movie has its own unique series of challenges.

  Peter Berg

  Unique, Challenges, Series

  Source: collider.com