David Ayer
David Ayer
David Ayeris an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for being the writer of Training Day, and the director and writer of Harsh Times, Street Kings, End of Watch, Sabotage, and Fury. In September 2014, Ayer was announced as both the writer and director for the DC Comics film Suicide Squad, scheduled for release on August 5, 2016...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth18 January 1968
CityChampaign, IL
CountryUnited States of America
My mantra is "Better is better".
If you want to know somebody, fight 'em. Have a fistfight with them.
That's the world of policing. I've met some bad-ass female cops, who are very cool people.
The most terrifying thing in my life is a blank sheet of paper.
For me, directing is like writing with meat. I can write live, in real time, and change things and be confident that I'm helping the movie.
The movie has to be going somewhere. Other than that, you want it to be entertaining, but people usually disagree on what entertaining is and everybody has different tastes.
I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter. So if you get in my face, I'm going to fight you.
Actors are insanely competitive and they hold back on each other. They are like magicians and none of them want to show their tricks.
I think great acting is about inhabiting a skin and transforming yourself.
To operate а tank as a crew, it's not about five individuals. It has to be one organism, composed of five people.
I like to do stuff real and practical and in camera, as much as possible. I like old school filmmaking.
I feel like, as a filmmaker, I'm at my strongest when I write the script and when it comes from me, out of whole cloth. My best work has always been self-generated.
Well, as far as film, either you're making a film or you're making videos. Digital capture is always trying to emulate the range and look of film. I believe personally that film has more.
Actors are like kids, they need to play a little bit. And that's the nature of their job, they need to shake off some energy and then you as the director get them back on track. When you do loosen up the reins, you get some amazing things, but you have to wring out the performances for every last good drop.