“I wanted to make a redemptive thriller that didn't end with some kind ...” — Joel Edgerton Quote

I wanted to make a redemptive thriller that didn't end with some kind of big, crazy shootout and blood spill, but more of a collision of ideas and a discussion of ethics.

To me, I think I'm just going to keep focused and forward on what I'm doing, work-wise, rather than searching for any kind of meaning in it.

'The Great Gatsby' ticked so many boxes for me.

Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.

Fighting in the ring or cage is very much different from fighting in the street. Fighting in the street is very much fueled by anger, pride, and male dominance and ego.

I liked the sport of martial arts because I loved anything that involved contact, conflict or collision. But as a young kid, I wasn't able to box, do karate or anything like that. I stuck to your traditional team sports in football and baseball.

In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP.

Football is not a contact sport, it is said: it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

A lot of the CTE stuff, you see in football, and that's because of the constant collision. These guys are doing it every week, and it's not like the running back is getting this problem, or the quarterback, it's the guys on the front line that keep going into each other. It's those guys.