David Ayer

You make a movie and it's like convincing people to go on an expedition with you. You think you know where it's…

— David Ayer

The movie on the screen is always going to be different from the movie in your head. How it makes you feel…

— David Ayer

When you talk to people who have been in combat, there's a sensory overload that happens. The color becomes vivid. Sounds become…

— David Ayer

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

— David Ayer

I'm a veteran, and I come from a family of veterans and people who served in that war. And the stories that…

— David Ayer

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

— David Ayer

It was a distortion, a mercenary decision to create this parallel history in order to drive the movie for an American audience,…

— David Ayer

When I make a movie, it's almost a relief to get shooting 'cause the hell is over, or part of the hell…

— David Ayer

You never know what you have until you put it in front of an audience. That's the truth. That's the truth of…

— David Ayer

I'm one of those big believers that the movie comes together in the way it's supposed to be and that movies are…

— David Ayer

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

[If] you want to learn something about somebody, get into a fistfight. You'll learn more in five minutes than you will in…

— David Ayer

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

— David Ayer

Even the scrutiny is good because it lets you know the world cares about your movie, and there is interest in it.

— David Ayer

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

— David Ayer

For me, I like to show what guys are like when no one is looking and how we really are, and that…

— David Ayer

If you want to know somebody, fight 'em. Have a fistfight with them.

— David Ayer

I think a good director can embrace any genre and it's the kind of thing where you always want to do something…

— David Ayer

You hear again and again that audiences want to see movies that are different and critics say we [directors] make the same…

— David Ayer

You don't want to get too far ahead of the audience and you don't want the audience to be ahead of you.…

— David Ayer

Every movie is different. Every movie requires its own sort of photographic voice.

— David Ayer

I'm all about real drama, real performance, and real people, so my twist on this is: I'm creating a family, a brotherhood…

— David Ayer

Well, as far as film, either you're making a film or you're making videos. Digital capture is always trying to emulate the…

— David Ayer

I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was…

— David Ayer

I feel like, as a filmmaker, I'm at my strongest when I write the script and when it comes from me, out…

— David Ayer