We're Both [with Mark Wahlberg] Capable Of

It's Always Funny To Me How Your Movie Becomes No Longer Yours And People Interpret It How They Want And React How They Want To React To It, And It's Fun To Kind Of Watch That Happen.

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.

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.

Hollywood Is Not Stupid, Contrary To Popular Belief; It's Really A Lot Of Intelligent People Trying To Figure Things Out.

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.