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The Fighter Was About A Family Struggling To Overcome And Fighting Each Other Sometimes, And I Went Back And Rewrote This Script Which I Had Written For My Son Initially Because My Son Has Mood Disorder.

In Order To Reinvent Yourself, You Have To Dig Deep And Look At Yourself. I'd Lost My Way Creatively, And I Was Humbled, And So I Think I Got Really Basic About Wanting To Depict People In The Ways That I Find Them Amazing And Funny And Emotional And That I Can Relate To And Do From An Instinctive, Gut Place. People Trying To Survive ... That's What All My Movies Are About.

You Know, Veterans Come Home And They May Not Be Bipolar, But After They've Been Through A War With Ptsd Or A Head Injury, Their Families Have A Handful When They Come Home.

That's What Takes People Out Of The Fight Half The Time. They Get Hit And Half The Reaction Is Your Ego Is Saying, 'i Cannot Believe That Person Just Lit Me Up - How Humiliating.

I Think I Land Somewhere Between Scorsese And Capra In What I'm Drawn To Emotionally; I'm Drawn To Very Intense Emotion. Capra Freaked People Out When They Saw Jimmy Stewart Lose It In 'it's A Wonderful Life.