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Peter Berg
American
Actor
Born:
Mar 11
,
1964
Always
Great
Love
Me
Think
You
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Where do you go to buy back your reputation when you lose it?
Peter Berg
Buy
You
Lose
Reputation
Back
Go
Where
Your
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
Car
Will
Drive
Animals
Aggressive
Speed
Trees
Potentially
Football
Contact
Like
Know
Box
Because
Surf
Climb
Human
Hockey
Ice
Such Things
Fast
Fast Cars
Play
Play Football
Dozens
Things
Boxing is not always about standing in the middle going toe to toe. It's about poise and grace under extreme pressure.
Peter Berg
Grace
Pressure
Extreme
About
Poise
Boxing
Always
Going
Middle
Toe
Standing
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
Life
Game
Made
My Life
First
Military
Other
All My Friends
Characters
Dressing
About
Guys
Had
Like
Up
Friends
Movie
Literally
Board
Turned
Really
Each
Ever
Second
Playing
Two
Life is, and should be, a little hard. Getting punched in the face or getting an occasional concussion will probably happen to us all at some point in our lives. We can handle it.
Peter Berg
Life
Will
Face
Our
Punched
Our Lives
Some
Point
Occasional
Handle
Getting
Happen
Little
Us
Should
Hard
Lives
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.
Peter Berg
Game
Book
Picture
Locker
Locker Room
He
Like
Looks
Him
Real
Sitting
Just
After
Room
Bob
Much
Coach
Billy
Gary
It's always an interesting sort of adventures that gets someone into a movie.
Peter Berg
Someone
Adventures
Sort
Always
Gets
Movie
Interesting
People know I love to shoot action and that I'm not afraid of emotion.
Peter Berg
Love
People
Action
Emotion
Know
Shoot
Afraid
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
Great
Musicians
Man
Thought
Big
Films
Back
Earth
Winning
David
David Bowie
Sinatra
Fell
Bowie
Big Believer
Been
Bunch
Precious
Going
Eternity
Turned
Barbra Streisand
Who
Actor
Believer
Streisand
Here
Oscar
Mariah Carey
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.
Peter Berg
Love
Great
You
Director
Luck
Way
Finding
Kingdom
One-Way
Someone
Casting
Had
Lights
Like
Know
Another
Another Way
Tim
Doing
Friday
Friday Night
Friday Night Lights
Them
Twice
Reinvent
Night
What first caught my eye about Rihanna was an interview she did with Diane Sawyer after the Chris Brown incident, where she was very articulate, very poised, obviously a smart girl who talked about a very traumatic experience.
Peter Berg
Experience
Smart
Girl
First
Interview
Eye
Rihanna
About
Brown
Poised
Obviously
She
Talked
Caught
Diane
Very
Articulate
Did
Where
After
Who
Incident
Traumatic
Chris
Chris Brown
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
War
Alien
Everything
Out
Would
Component
Perceived
Could
Take
Like
Global
Make
Felt
Audience
Accessible
American
Did
Want
Wanted
Help
Film
Bringing
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
Today
You
Long
Big
Saw
Guns
About
Feet
Missouri
WWII
Were
Huge
Current
Which
Japanese
Used
Fun
Navy
Last
I'm a patriot. I admire our military, their character, code of honor, belief systems.
Peter Berg
Character
Honor
Military
Our
Systems
Admire
Patriot
Belief
Code
I love actors. I'm empathetic to them. I understand what they go through. But I didn't want to be an actor.
Peter Berg
Love
Through
Empathetic
Understand
Go
Want
Them
Actor
I don't go to a lot of other directors' sets; directors don't come to mine. Directors are all very cordial with each other, but they're not necessarily friendly.
Peter Berg
Sets
Other
Mine
Directors
Come
Go
Lot
Friendly
Very
Each
Necessarily
Cordial
When I started making films, like almost every filmmaker, I think, you're just so excited to be able to make a movie that you'll do anything.
Peter Berg
You
Every
Think
Films
Able
Excited
Almost
Like
Make
Making
Just
Movie
Anything
Started
Filmmaker
There's a truth to the violence of boxing. You have a very real threat, an opponent.
Peter Berg
Truth
You
Threat
Boxing
Opponent
Real
Very
Violence
I've always found boxing to be an incredibly pure sport. The level of character of most fighters I find very high. And it's just the best workout you can get.
Peter Berg
Best
Character
You
Pure
Incredibly
High
Find
Most
Sport
Boxing
Always
Very
Get
Just
Fighters
Workout
Found
Level
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
Me
You
Focus
Energy
Out
Gives
Contact
Feel
Knocked
Know
Make
Makes
Am
Lot
Friend
Than
Get
Behave
Want
Movies
Younger
Sparring
Dad
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
Happiness
Life
You
Yourself
Mind
Feeling
Sorry
Energy
Fatter
See
Guy
Know
House
Around
Boxing
Does
Up
Get
Sitting
Getting
Move
Just
Body
Your
Your Body
Levels
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
Parents
Demanding
Thinking
Worthy
Introduction
About
Tackle
Football
Head
Himself
Talking
Answers
Child
Any
Children
Custodian
Coach
Should
Injuries
Letting
Play
Neck
Presenting
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
Nature
Memory
Young
Must
Football
Leading
Over
Heads
Until
Without
Becomes
Boy
Up
Taught
Young Players
Skill
Skills
Lowering
Play
Play Football
Second
Players
Muscle
Second Nature
Set
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
Life
You
Old
Coffee
Important
Big
Pay
Pay Attention
Cold
Details
Someone
Small
Attention
Stuff
Make
Deal
Boxing
Big Deal
Years
Cup
Movie
Them
Sweating
Ask
Really
Production
Bring
Assistants
If I could find a way to make a film that takes you into the mind of a fighter, where you have 36 minutes of combat with so many different emotions, so many highs and lows, so many obstacles to overcome, I'd do that.
Peter Berg
You
Emotions
Overcome
Mind
Fighter
Way
Find
Minutes
Could
Takes
Combat
Highs
Obstacles
Make
Where
Different
Different Emotions
If I Could
Lows
Many
Film
I was very impressed with Davis Guggenheim's 'An Inconvenient Truth.' He's inspired me as one of the newer, cutting-edge documentary filmmakers. I see those films, and I'm just instinctively drawn to them.
Peter Berg
Truth
Me
Films
Those
Drawn
See
Inspired
Davis
He
Instinctively
Documentary
Impressed
Very
Just
Them
Inconvenient
Filmmakers
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