I Like Films That Are About Two

I Had Great Luck With Tim Mcgraw Twice In 'friday Night Lights' And 'the Kingdom.' I Love Finding Off-beat Casting And Finding Someone You Know In One Way And You Reinvent Them In Another Way. I Like Doing That As A Director.

I Try To Preload As Little As I Can. I Like To Come To The Set With Minimal Preparation.

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.

Every Movie Has Its Own Unique Series Of Challenges.

One Of The Things That's Fascinating About Making Movies Is A Movie When It's Done And You Start Showing It To People, It Reveals Its Impact, Which Is Often Times Not What You Thought.