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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.

From 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.

From Peter Berg

I'm definitely drawn to stories of just regular folks, just generally in some kind of horrific situation. I keep saying I want to do a love story in the south of France with a boy and girl and some wine. Then I always end up in an oil rig with four hundred guys or on a mountain with guys shooting at each other.

From Peter Berg

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

From Peter Berg

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

From Peter Berg

There's a truth to the violence of boxing. You have a very real threat, an opponent.

From 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.

From 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.

From 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.

From 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.

From Peter Berg

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