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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
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David Ayer
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 18
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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.
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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.
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I like to do stuff real and practical and in camera, as much as possible. I like old school filmmaking.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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That's the world of policing. I've met some bad-ass female cops, who are very cool people.
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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.
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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.
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Every movie is different. Every movie requires its own sort of photographic voice.
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I'm all about real drama, real performance, and real people, so my twist on this is: I'm creating a family, a brotherhood here. I'm creating a very real chemistry and I have this incredible ensemble of actors led by Will Smith, who are basically playing dimensional characters with lives and souls.
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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.
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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.
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[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.
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My mantra is Better is better.
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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.
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The most terrifying thing in my life is a blank sheet of paper.
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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.
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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.
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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 each movie is a snapshot of its time and the resources, and you do your best on it.
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