For me, directing is like writing with meat. I can write live, in real time, and change things and be confident that I'm helping the movie. — David Ayer Copy Share Image
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… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
The movie on the screen is always going to be different from the movie in your head. How it makes you feel is what… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
When you talk to people who have been in combat, there's a sensory overload that happens. The color becomes vivid. Sounds become more pronounced.… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
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… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
I think great acting is about inhabiting a skin and transforming yourself. — David Ayer Copy Share Image
It was a distortion, a mercenary decision to create this parallel history in order to drive the movie for an American audience, Both my… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
When I make a movie, it's almost a relief to get shooting 'cause the hell is over, or part of the hell is over. — David Ayer Copy Share Image
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… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
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… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[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… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Even the scrutiny is good because it lets you know the world cares about your movie, and there is interest in it. — David Ayer Copy Share Image
That's the world of policing. I've met some bad-ass female cops, who are very cool people. — David Ayer Copy Share Image
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