Peter Berg famous quotes

03-25-2025

I believe that anything in this world is fair game for a creative exercise.
-- Peter Berg

#Believe #Exercise #Games
Every movie has its own unique series of challenges.
-- Peter Berg

#Unique #Challenges
You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just be open to anything.
-- Peter Berg

#Play #Quality #Important
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.
-- Peter Berg

#Impact #People #Done
Be really picky with your hiring, and hire the absolute best people you possibly can. People are the most important component of almost every business, and attracting the best talent possible is going to make a huge difference.
-- Peter Berg

#Differences #People #Important
It's always an interesting sort of adventures that gets someone into a movie.
-- Peter Berg

#Adventure #Interesting
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

#Winning #Men #Actors
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

#Girl #Smart #Eye
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 #Want #Jingoism
I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's football, hockey, boxing, being a cop, being a soldier. There's not a lot of people who are willing to put themselves into those situations.
-- Peter Berg

#Football #Character #Hockey
I don't like alien films where you don't get to see the aliens.
-- Peter Berg

#Aliens #Film
I wanted to do a naval film and I flirted with different ideas, most of which ended up being too intense. So when the idea of 'Battleship' was first suggested, I was instantly drawn to the challenge - could I invent a movie around the idea of five ships fighting five ships?
-- Peter Berg

#Fighting #Ideas #Challenges
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

#Fun #Gun #Feet
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

#Military #Character #Games
I'm pretty upfront about my love and admiration for the military. One of the perks of making movies is that you get to sort of follow your own passions, and I believe quite passionately that we don't pay enough attention and respect to our veterans. Not just our wounded veterans, but all veterans.
-- Peter Berg

#Military #Believe #Passion
People know I love to shoot action and that I'm not afraid of emotion.
-- Peter Berg

#People #Emotion #Action
What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?
-- Peter Berg

#Towns #Want #Kind
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.
-- Peter Berg

#Taken #Thinking #Skills
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

#Friday #Night #Light
I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever.
-- Peter Berg

#Father #Forever #Navy
I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.
-- Peter Berg

#Thinking #Stuff #Great Success
Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose,
-- Peter Berg

#Eye #Heart #Full Hearts
Michael Mann's always been one of my heroes.
-- Peter Berg

#Hero #Firefighter #My Hero
Truth is, we offered it to Tom Hanks, which pretty much every movie in America does, but Tom passed. Billy Bob said that Hanks recently called and said he's voting for all of us for Oscars, he loved the film.
-- Peter Berg

#America #Voting #Doe
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.
-- Peter Berg

#Tvs #Might #Reinventing Yourself
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

#Real #Book #Games
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.
-- Peter Berg

#Fun #Humorous #Cocky

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