Latest David Ayer Quotes from Interviews

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

  David Ayer

  World, Care, Interest

  Source: deadline.com

• 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

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

  David Ayer

  Paper, Life Is, Sheets

  Source: collider.com

• 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

• 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

  Relief, Shooting, Causes

  Source: collider.com

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

  David Ayer

  Pressure, Worst

  Source: collider.com

• 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

• As a writer, you have to be willing to kill your darlings, and I'm a writer first. As a director, I've got no problem cutting the scenes.

  David Ayer

  Cutting, Directors, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  David Ayer

  Thinking, Skins, Acting

  Source: collider.com

• The hardest thing, as a director, is that it's never right. Nothing you do is ever right. It's never exactly how you envision it. Making a movie is about making it better.

  David Ayer

  Directors, Hardest, Hardest Thing

  Source: collider.com

• The worst part of directing is always seeing the first assembly. It's devastating. It really is. It's like going into the delivery room and you can't wait to see your baby, and it's a crocodile.

  David Ayer

  Baby, Waiting, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

• The movie on the screen is always going to be different from the movie in your head. How it makes you feel is what I'm after, what I'm chasing, and what I'm trying to construct.

  David Ayer

  Trying, Different, Chasing

  Source: collider.com

• 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

• [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

• You hear again and again that audiences want to see movies that are different and critics say we [directors] make the same thing again and again in Hollywood, then you go and make something different and you get kicked in the gut for it.

  David Ayer

  Want, Directors, Hollywood

  Source: www.esquire.com

• 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 a house painter. So if you get in my face, I'm going to fight you.

  David Ayer

  School, Fighting, Guy

  Source: www.esquire.com

• 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

• 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

• 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

  Real, Writing, Meat

  Source: collider.com