David Ayer Quotes

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• Every movie is different. Every movie requires its own sort of photographic voice.
• I'm a Veteran. I was in the Navy, in the submarine corps. I come from a military family. Both of my grandparents were in World…
• If you want to know somebody, fight 'em. Have a fistfight with them.
• To operate а tank as a crew, it's not about five individuals. It has to be one organism, composed of five people.
• 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…
• My mantra is "Better is better".
• 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. People…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• When you put a movie together, you're continually screening it for yourself and you're screening it for other people. It's like a video game power…
• That's the world of policing. I've met some bad-ass female cops, who are very cool people.
• I like to do stuff real and practical and in camera, as much as possible. I like old school filmmaking.
• 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…
• 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…

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