Quotes by Peter Berg - Page 2

Working with composers often is a really frustrating experience because you speak a different language and, oftentimes, they take two or three jobs, at the same time. They're difficult and pretentious and they're tormented artists.
Peter Berg / Actor
Jobs
Artist
Often Is
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You're in the middle of making a movie and this part of the process is always very interesting. Because you think what you're making your movie is and then you start putting it out there, and then people tell you what your movie is.
Peter Berg / Actor
Interesting
People
Thinking
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Young boys must be taught to play football without leading with or lowering their heads. Young players must be drilled over and over and over with Heads Up Football skills until that skill set becomes muscle memory and second nature.
Peter Berg / Actor
Muscle
Heads
Leading
Lowering
Play Football
Second Nature
Skill
Young Players
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The way you set up for a sequel is by having a successful film. The focus is on making a successful film, and making a film that travels around the world, and that people enjoy and have fun with, and that people are able to escape with.
Peter Berg / Actor
Fun
People
Successful
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The first movie I literally ever made in my life was about two guys playing Stratego with each other. I had all my friends dressing up like the military characters in the game. So 'Battleship' is really my second board game turned movie!
Peter Berg / Actor
Character
Military
Two
All My Friends
Life Game My Life
Board
Dressing
Literally
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I did not want 'Battleship' to be perceived as an American war film. I wanted to do everything I could to make the film accessible to a global audience. It felt like bringing an alien component to the film would help take the American jingoism out of it.
Peter Berg / Actor
War
Jingoism
Want
Accessible
Alien
Bringing
Component
Perceived
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I tend to not have to handle things that are probably gonna end up being irrelevant, that aren't gonna have much to do with the film. I have probably a better understanding of really what does matter, when to pick my battles and when to kind of let them go.
Peter Berg / Actor
Battle
Doe
Understanding
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I don't want to be knocked out. But the contact and the focus and the energy I get from sparring gives me energy to make movies, energy to be a dad, energy to be a friend, and, you know, makes me feel, probably, a lot younger and behave a lot younger than I am.
Peter Berg / Actor
Behave
Contact
Sparring
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I think I've been fortunate enough to have a fairly long career and hopefully I'm at the middle of it now. And I think I'm starting to develop a certain amount of experience and a certain amount of wisdom about kind of what really matters and what doesn't matter.
Peter Berg / Actor
Careers
Long
Thinking
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I have a tradition of working with actors, over and over again. I've worked with Jason Bateman, over and over again. You get to know an actor, and you get a certain trust and a comfort, and you become really good friends, and you feel like you've got a short-hand.
Peter Berg / Actor
Comfort
Good Friend
Hands
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I wanted to do a naval film and I flirted with different ideas, most of which ended up being too intense. So when the idea of 'Battleship' was first suggested, I was instantly drawn to the challenge - could I invent a movie around the idea of five ships fighting five ships?
Peter Berg / Actor
Movie
Challenges
Different Ideas
Fighting
Ideas
Intense
Naval
Ships
Wanted
Idea
Challenge
Drawn
Ended
Instantly
Invent
Suggested
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Head and neck injuries are what parents thinking about letting their children play tackle football should be thinking about, talking about, and demanding answers about, from any coach presenting himself as a worthy custodian for their child's introduction to tackle football.
Peter Berg / Actor
Introduction
Presenting
Worthy
Neck
Coach
Custodian
Demanding
Injuries
Letting
Tackle
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The big fun in 'Battleship' is that there are no current battleships in the Navy today. The battleships are about 1,000 feet long and they have huge guns. They were what you saw in WWII. The last battleship that was used was the Missouri, which is what the Japanese surrendered to.
Peter Berg / Actor
Feet
Missouri
Navy
Wwii
Guns
Current
Japanese
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The big fun in Battleship is that there are no current battleships in the Navy today. The battleships are about 1,000 feet long and they have huge guns. They were what you saw in WWII. The last battleship that was used was the Missouri, which is what the Japanese surrendered to...
Peter Berg / Actor
Feet
Fun
Gun
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I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's football, hockey, boxing, being a cop, being a soldier. There's not a lot of people who are willing to put themselves into those situations.
Peter Berg / Actor
Boxing
Character
Cop
Exploring
Fascinated
Football
Hockey
Soldier
Football People Way
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I'm much more collaborative than I probably was when I was first starting, much more willing to say, "I don't know the answer to that." I have really talented people and let them do their jobs and not try to control everything as much as I did when I was starting. I was a bit more insecure.
Peter Berg / Actor
Jobs
Insecure
People
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If you're a 50-year-old guy, and you're sitting around the house with - you know, and just getting fatter, feeling sorry for yourself, get up and move your body and see what it does to your life and to your mind and to your happiness and to your energy levels. And I get all that from boxing.
Peter Berg / Actor
Boxing
Levels
Sorry
Your Body
Life Happiness Yourself
Fatter
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I've been a big believer in musicians turned actor, going back to Sinatra winning the Oscar for 'From Here To Eternity.' David Bowie in 'Man Who Fell to Earth,' Kris Kristofferson's been great in a bunch of films. Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand, Mariah Carey, I thought was great in 'Precious.
Peter Berg / Actor
Men
Musician
Winning
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I've been a big believer in musicians turned actor, going back to Sinatra winning the Oscar for 'From Here To Eternity.' David Bowie in 'Man Who Fell to Earth,' Kris Kristofferson's been great in a bunch of films. Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand, Mariah Carey, I thought was great in 'Precious.'
Peter Berg / Actor
Believer
Bowie
Bunch
Earth
Eternity
Streisand
Winning
Actor
David
Barbra Streisand
Big Believer
Films
Mariah Carey
Musicians
Oscar
Precious
Sinatra
Turned
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I'm pretty upfront about my love and admiration for the military. One of the perks of making movies is that you get to sort of follow your own passions, and I believe quite passionately that we don't pay enough attention and respect to our veterans. Not just our wounded veterans, but all veterans.
Peter Berg / Actor
Respect
Admiration
Attention
Believe
Military
Passion
Pay
Perks
Wounded
Pretty
Quite
Follow
Making Movies
Passionately
Upfront
Veterans
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I grew up during a time of peace, and my friends weren't joining the military - it wasn't something on my radar. But if you asked me whether I could go back and do it all over again now, and it meant I wouldn't go into filmmaking, there's a part of me that would have loved to try to be a Navy SEAL.
Peter Berg / Actor
Filmmaking
Joining
Navy
Radar
Time Peace Me
Seal
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Young kids should probably not play tackle football. I know this intellectually, but emotionally, I'm conflicted. I love this sport. I grew up playing and adoring football. I love the brotherhood, teamwork, athletic grace that borders on superhuman, grit, pressure and, yes, contact. I love the contact.
Peter Berg / Actor
Borders
Brotherhood
Contact
Football
Grace
Grew
Pressure
Superhuman
Teamwork
Young
Adoring
Emotionally
Sport
Intellectually
Tackle
Yes
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I'm definitely drawn to stories of just regular folks, just generally in some kind of horrific situation. I keep saying I want to do a love story in the south of France with a boy and girl and some wine. Then I always end up in an oil rig with four hundred guys or on a mountain with guys shooting at each other.
Peter Berg / Actor
Horrific
Hundred
Love Story
Mountain
Oil
Shooting
Wine
Love Always Keep
Drawn
Regular
Rig
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We will play football. We will box and play lacrosse and ice hockey and snowboard and surf and drive fast cars, climb trees, and do dozens of things that we know are potentially concussive. We will do this because we are human and animals, and we like speed and contact and aggressive maneuvering and all such things.
Peter Berg / Actor
Aggressive
Contact
Hockey
Ice
Speed
Surf
Climb
Dozens
Fast Cars
Play Football
Potentially
Such Things
Trees
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Sweating the small stuff is important in boxing and life. On a movie, we have production assistants who're 18 and 19 years old. If someone asks you for a cup of coffee, and you bring them a cup of coffee that's cold, I make a big deal of that. I make a really, really big deal of that. You have to pay attention to details.
Peter Berg / Actor
Assistants
Big Deal
Boxing
Coffee
Details
Pay Attention
Sweating
Cup
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One of the challenges assembling the film was that gun fight went on for three and a half hours and we obviously couldn't spend three and a half hours of the film with one gun fight. It was trying to figure out the balance of how much an audience could take before they either became repulsed or desensitized or bored or just overwhelmed.
Peter Berg / Actor
Bored
Fighting
Gun
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I think the biggest challenge was being aware of a certain audience that was going to see this film [lone survivor]. There's a big difference from a typical movie, journalists and critics and film goers that go see it find that, that's the general experience you have as a filmmaker. So that just kind of proves my point that there's a really different audience.
Peter Berg / Actor
Challenges
Differences
Thinking
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I was in New York 9/11. Mark's [Wahlberg] from Boston, flew there immediately after. I was in Nice Bastille Day when the truck drove through and killed all these people. It's the new reality, unfortunately. The idea of trying to explore how we process this kind of event, how we survive emotionally, what we tell our kids: That was the movie [Patriots Day] we wanted to make.
Peter Berg / Actor
Kids
New York
Nice
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