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1. I love actors. I’m empathetic to them. I understand what they go through. But I didn’t want to be an actor.
2. It’s always an interesting sort of adventures that gets someone into a movie.
3. 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.
4. 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!
5. I don’t think about awards when I set out to do something. If that happens, it’s great.
6. I’m a patriot. I admire our military, their character, code of honor, belief systems.
7. 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.
8. When I look back at it, I’m mostly amazed at how poorly it was shot. David Kelley is a great writer, and I thought the scripts were great, but it just looks so cheap.
9. You might make a lot of money, but it’s very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you can reinvent yourself, the better — and unfortunately TV is designed not to let you redesign yourself.
10. Boxing is not always about standing in the middle going toe to toe. It’s about poise and grace under extreme pressure.
11. I think musicians oftentimes have the right skill set to be good actors. And with Rihanna, I noticed her and knew of her obviously, and was very taken with her charisma and her confidence.
12. Some directors want to make superhero films. That’s what gets them off, and they love it, and they love sci-fi. I prefer putting my hands into non-fiction.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. Generally, studios are adverse to making films about war in the Middle East. They’d much rather make a film with a superhero or an alien or a robot.
16. I’ve spent enough time with soldiers to know that once they get to know you and they loosen up and become themselves, they are some of the biggest hams and most charismatic, cocky, fun, humorous guys I’ve ever met.
17. Then they started pulling me in and I was very resistant. All the other actors would be saying write more, more dialogue for me, and I’d always be saying ‘No, less, less’.
18. Where do you go to buy back your reputation when you lose it?
19. I found at a certain point in my acting career that I was just bored. I had too much energy. I had too many ideas.
20. 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.