It's Always An Interesting Sort Of Adventures

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.

There's A Picture Of The Real Coach Gary Gaines In The Book And He's Sitting In The Locker Room After A Game, And He Just Looks So Much Like Billy Bob, That We Went To Him.

We're Both [with Mark Wahlberg] Capable Of Being Sarcastic, Vicious, Violent Lunatics, But We Hold Each Other In Check, Appeal To The Best Aspects Of Each Other.

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.

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.