I'm A Huge Fan Of

I Believe That Anything In This World Is Fair Game For A Creative Exercise.

You're In The Middle Of Making A Movie And This Part Of The Process Is Always Very Interesting. Because You Think What You're Making Your Movie Is And Then You Start Putting It Out There, And Then People Tell You What Your Movie Is.

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.

Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can't Lose.

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.