David Ayer Quotes - Page 2

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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 talk about how, for them, the war was technicolor and real life was black and white after the war.

  David Ayer

  Real, War, Black And White

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

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• 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 meter. When the power bar starts going down, you've gotta look at what's going on.

  David Ayer

  Games, People, Together

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

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• It was a distortion, a mercenary decision to create this parallel history in order to drive the movie for an American audience, Both my grandparents were officers in World War Two, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achieve.

  David Ayer

  War, Order, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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