People know I love to shoot action and that I'm not afraid of emotion.
From 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.
I believe that anything in this world is fair game for a creative exercise.
I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever.
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.
When I look back at it, I'm mostly amazed at how poorly it was shot. David Kelley is a great writer, and I thought the scripts were great, but it just looks so cheap.
Then they started pulling me in and I was very resistant. All the other actors would be saying write more, more dialogue for me, and I'd always be saying 'No, less, less'.
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.
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.
Michael Mann's always been one of my heroes.
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