Peter Berg Quotes

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

  Peter Berg

  Believe, Exercise, Games

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• Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose.

  Peter Berg

  Eye, Heart, Friday Night Lights

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• Be really picky with your hiring, and hire the absolute best people you possibly can. People are the most important component of almost every business, and attracting the best talent possible is going to make a huge difference.

  Peter Berg

  Differences, People, Important

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• 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.

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• I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's football, hockey, boxing, being a cop, being a soldier. There's not a lot of people who are willing to put themselves into those situations.

  Peter Berg

  Football, Character, Hockey

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• 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

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• 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.

  Peter Berg

  Play, Important, Quality

  "Why Did You Cast A Massive Music Superstar In What Amounts To A Run-And-Gun Supporting Role?" by Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. May 17, 2012.

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• 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

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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

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• 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.

  Peter Berg

  Thinking, Stuff, Great Success

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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

  Peter Berg

  Inspiration, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• Every movie has its own unique series of challenges.

  Peter Berg

  Unique, Challenges, Series

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm pretty upfront about my love and admiration for the military. One of the perks of making movies is that you get to sort of follow your own passions, and I believe quite passionately that we don't pay enough attention and respect to our veterans. Not just our wounded veterans, but all veterans.

  Peter Berg

  Military, Believe, Passion

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• 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

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• 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

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• I did not want 'Battleship' to be perceived as an American war film. I wanted to do everything I could to make the film accessible to a global audience. It felt like bringing an alien component to the film would help take the American jingoism out of it.

  Peter Berg

  War, Jingoism, Want

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• Truth is, we offered it to Tom Hanks, which pretty much every movie in America does, but Tom passed. Billy Bob said that Hanks recently called and said he's voting for all of us for Oscars, he loved the film.

  Peter Berg

  America, Voting, Doe

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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.

  Peter Berg

  Might, Tvs, Reinventing Yourself

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• 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

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