55 Quotes by David Ayer

The most terrifying thing in my life is a blank sheet of paper.

For me, directing is like writing with meat. I can write live, in real time, and change things and be confident that I'm helping the movie.

The movie has to be going somewhere. Other than that, you want it to be entertaining, but people usually disagree on what entertaining is and everybody has different tastes.

I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter. So if you get in my face, I'm going to fight you.

Actors are insanely competitive and they hold back on each other. They are like magicians and none of them want to show their tricks.

I think great acting is about inhabiting a skin and transforming yourself.

To operate а tank as a crew, it's not about five individuals. It has to be one organism, composed of five people.

I like to do stuff real and practical and in camera, as much as possible. I like old school filmmaking.

I feel like, as a filmmaker, I'm at my strongest when I write the script and when it comes from me, out of whole cloth. My best work has always been self-generated.