"It's sad that movies are only to entertain and get thrills and violence and horror. That's sad. We are losing what it means to be human beings in movies."

"You have to show that charity is not a viable substitute for a functional healthcare system." -Farihah Zaman

"This process of rehearsing was not focused on acting, it was finding the dynamic of the camera because it was all sequenced shots, sometimes you have a scene that lasts ten minutes, and we really had to create the choreography..."

"I don’t think we left a day feeling amazing, feeling, “Oh my god, I crushed that scene!” You just don’t on a movie like this." -Channing Tatum

"My form of communication is through the movies I make. This movie is incredibility entertaining, as well as I feel like some kind of commentary...those are the types of movies I wanna make."

"They're doing this big anti-bullying campaign and getting rid of the perfume in stores. Seeing that change in [Abercrombie & Fitch]... was almost more gratifying than doing the movie itself."

"I worked very intimately with Hilary Swank, but I also don’t want to take anything away from the work that she did. I was just making sure that the story that needs to be told, was being told."

"I have not read a script that has demanded so much from a character. I was happy that Damien had me in mind for the role. This is a movie that’s almost shot like a boxing movie." -Miles Teller

"I think coming off this movie in particular, I have learned to be very, very careful should I ever encounter the word "snow" or "ping-pong" in a script again."

"[My character] is like any girl in a relationship trying to figure out whether or not she should stay or go... we have all been there at some point and I really identified with that." -Elisabeth Moss

"People say, ‘Oh that’s such an ‘indie film’,’ and that terrified me. I didn’t want to make a generic 'indie' film, I wanted it to feel like something bigger." -Charlie McDowell

"But what I learned, and music was the teacher…is that there's a life inside each of those people. There's a movie that plays inside each of their heads that will disappear when they go." -Michael Rossato-Bennett

"And it had occurred to me that the last line of the last word I uttered on that entire shoot was: 'sodomy.'"

"We talked a lot about the madness of the night. That was something I kept in mind a lot, how could this music speak to all the madness that erupts on Purge night."

"And we were on the way to eat some sandwiches, and we got a call, like, ten minutes after the pitch. And the producer called us into his office, and we sat down, and he's like, "So, they said 'yes'."