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Peter Berg

Profession : Actor

Birth : March 11, 1964

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

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

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

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

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

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

Peter Berg

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

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

I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever.

Peter Berg

Before boxing, I was this angry kid ready to fight if someone said, 'Hello.'

Peter Berg

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

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

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

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.

Peter Berg

Where do you go to buy back your reputation when you lose it?

Peter Berg

The SEALs rarely call the Taliban 'terrorists' because they respect them as worthy opponents.

Peter Berg

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

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

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

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.

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