David Ayer Quotes

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• You never know what you have until you put it in front of an audience. That's the truth. That's the truth of filmmaking and that's why you make movies, for an audience to, hopefully, enjoy it.

  David Ayer

  Enjoy, Filmmaking, Audience

  Source: collider.com

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• [If] you want to learn something about somebody, get into a fistfight. You'll learn more in five minutes than you will in five weeks of conversations. It's basic.

  David Ayer

  Want, Week, Conversation

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The most terrifying thing in my life is a blank sheet of paper.

  David Ayer

  Paper, Life Is, Sheets

  Source: collider.com

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• Well, as far as film, either you're making a film or you're making videos. Digital capture is always trying to emulate the range and look of film. I believe personally that film has more.

  David Ayer

  Believe, Always Trying, Video

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I like to do stuff real and practical and in camera, as much as possible. I like old school filmmaking.

  David Ayer

  Real, School, Cameras

  Source: collider.com

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• I think a good director can embrace any genre and it's the kind of thing where you always want to do something different. You always want to challenge yourself.

  David Ayer

  Thinking, Challenges, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm one of those big believers that the movie comes together in the way it's supposed to be and that movies are fated to become what they become.

  David Ayer

  Together, Believer

  Source: deadline.com

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• You can't go back. Once it's done, it's done. I'm sure there will be things that I would love to change, in the future, but each movie is a snapshot of its time and the resources, and you do your best on it.

  David Ayer

  Snapshots, Done, Resources

  Source: collider.com

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• To operate а tank as a crew, it's not about five individuals. It has to be one organism, composed of five people.

  David Ayer

  People, Tanks, Individual

  Source: collider.com

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• The worst pressure is the pressure I put on myself.

  David Ayer

  Pressure, Worst

  Source: collider.com

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• My mantra is "Better is better".

  David Ayer

  Mantras

  Source: collider.com

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• You make a movie and it's like convincing people to go on an expedition with you. You think you know where it's going to end up, and you're hoping and guessing. But, when people trust you and get involved, based on that trust, it's a really nice feeling to be able to have everything pay off.

  David Ayer

  Nice, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm all about real drama, real performance, and real people, so my twist on this is: I'm creating a family, a brotherhood here. I'm creating a very real chemistry and I have this incredible ensemble of actors led by Will Smith, who are basically playing dimensional characters with lives and souls.

  David Ayer

  Real, Drama, Character

  "SUICIDE SQUAD Behind the Scenes Footage: David Ayer Says He’s Creating a Family" by Perri Nemiroff, collider.com. May 07, 2015.

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• That's the world of policing. I've met some bad-ass female cops, who are very cool people.

  David Ayer

  Bad Ass, People, Female

  Source: collider.com

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• You don't want to get too far ahead of the audience and you don't want the audience to be ahead of you. So, that balance is difficult and it takes a lot of work and tuning in the edit, to get the right balance.

  David Ayer

  Balance, Tuning, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• Actors are insanely competitive and they hold back on each other. They are like magicians and none of them want to show their tricks.

  David Ayer

  Actors, Want, Tricks

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I feel like, as a filmmaker, I'm at my strongest when I write the script and when it comes from me, out of whole cloth. My best work has always been self-generated.

  David Ayer

  Writing, Self, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a veteran, and I come from a family of veterans and people who served in that war. And the stories that I heard were a hell of a lot different than the movies that I was seeing, so I wanted to make a movie about the people that were really there.

  David Ayer

  War, People, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• Actors are like kids, they need to play a little bit. And that's the nature of their job, they need to shake off some energy and then you as the director get them back on track. When you do loosen up the reins, you get some amazing things, but you have to wring out the performances for every last good drop.

  David Ayer

  Jobs, Kids, Play

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• For me, I like to show what guys are like when no one is looking and how we really are, and that we can be emotional and have these emotional lives. I think it would be great to do a film where we see some females and what's going on there when we're not around.

  David Ayer

  Emotional, Thinking, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• In the writing phase, normally I try not to envisage any particular actors because I like to let the characters sort of reveal themselves in that process.

  David Ayer

  Writing, Character, Trying

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Stories of friendship are very interesting to me. Artificial families are something I like to explore. Whether it's a bunch of guys or a bunch of ladies, there's something interesting about that.

  David Ayer

  Interesting, Guy, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• The movie has to be going somewhere. Other than that, you want it to be entertaining, but people usually disagree on what entertaining is and everybody has different tastes.

  David Ayer

  People, Different, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• I think great acting is about inhabiting a skin and transforming yourself.

  David Ayer

  Thinking, Skins, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• It's important for me to take very famous, well-known people and not have them play themselves and not have them be seen as themselves.

  David Ayer

  Play, People, Important

  Source: collider.com

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