Quotes About Intensity

When I set out to make 'Bourne Identity,' my main goal for the franchise was to create something where it feels like you're in the action. You're not just passively watching it from far away. That's something that I have constantly aspired to do - even in 'Swingers,' to feel like you're Jon Favreau; you're not just watching him.

Even if you're an angry, intense person, you also have to have intense joy about life and intense feelings about the world.

There was so much emotional response to 'Dogfight.' You just heard the audience: They were so horrified. They were sobbing. They were joyful at times.

Your competitive juice, your love of the game, it's in you. It's hard to get out.

I have a lot of competitive juices, and I want to go out and compete on the football field every day.

There are guys that you look at and you want to really bowl at them or bat against them, certain guys who really get your juices flowing.

Juilliard. It was a brutal and beautiful experience.

When I play live, I jump around like an idiot for an hour-and-a-half or more under a lighting rig that's hotter than hell.

Jumping off the cage at the Garden, you couldn't even hear yourself. I loved it so much. Things like that just stick in your heart.

It's like you get a high off the jumps, and you crave it, and you want to do it again and again and again.

I'm just one of those guys that, when I'm going in, I'm going all-in. That's kind of the way you've got to be in this business that I'm in.

I'm just one of those people who happens to be all or nothing. A lot of people can be middle. I'm not.

I can focus on just one thing - that's basketball.

I don't have synesthesia, but I think when music is really intense, it's almost like it's more than just hearing. If you're at a gig, and there's just something amazing going on, it's not really just hearing: it's more of a total body sense, isn't it? You get transported, and all your senses kind of join up.

I think you have to be physical no matter who you're playing against, so that's just something that I have to do.

Since I danced really intensely, singing was more just something that I enjoyed.

My style of fighting is to go down and trying to finish the guy and trying to end fights, not laying up because I'm winning the fight, just keep going after it.

From beginning to end it's about keeping the energy and the intensity of the story and not doing too much and not doing too little, but just enough so people stay interested and stay involved in the characters.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

Shouting at people keeps you alive, healthy, young, fresh.

I think actually what keeps the intensity manageable - it's a little counterintuitive - is that it's changing all the time. Every week is different for me.

Kevin Muscat scared me. You know, people would say 'I'm going to break your legs' - when he would say it, you genuinely believed him.

Kevin' was shot in 30 days.

Guarding Kevin Durant - that's fun for me.