We're Both [with Mark Wahlberg] Capable Of

I Tend To Not Have To Handle Things That Are Probably Gonna End Up Being Irrelevant, That Aren't Gonna Have Much To Do With The Film. I Have Probably A Better Understanding Of Really What Does Matter, When To Pick My Battles And When To Kind Of Let Them Go.

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.

I Was In New York 9/11. Mark's [wahlberg] From Boston, Flew There Immediately After. I Was In Nice Bastille Day When The Truck Drove Through And Killed All These People. It's The New Reality, Unfortunately. The Idea Of Trying To Explore How We Process This Kind Of Event, How We Survive Emotionally, What We Tell Our Kids: That Was The Movie [patriots Day] We Wanted To Make.

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.

I Don't Like Alien Films Where You Don't Get To See The Aliens.