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" A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films. "
Value
Just
Face
" Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films. "
Way
Watch
Directing
" Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it. "
Too Much
My Own
Said
" For everything you give an audience, you always have to take one thing away. They always have to pay for the story. "
You
Always
Audience
" I am not interested in telling you what to think. My job is to show you what I think. Period. "
Show
Telling
Job
" I believe that as a writer and a director, you're only providing the skeleton of a character, and you're hiring actors to fill it out. "
Believe
Skeleton
Only
" Ideally, I'd like to have a movie that people like and makes money. "
Makes
People
Movie
" I honestly never wanted to direct. It was only when I started to work on 'Alexander the Great' that I realized I had to direct. I saw something so specifically in my mind, I could not leave it to someone else. "
Leave
Never
Mind
" I'm saying, let's learn to reacquire a respect for the power of guns. This culture is so indifferent and disrespectful of guns that we should be terrified. "
Culture
Saying
Respect
" I've always been fascinated with Navy SEALs in general and their role in Afghanistan in particular. "
Always
Been
Navy
" I've rewritten other films and watched my writing be mutilated, but luckily, it's been mutilated anonymously. "
Writing
Been
Other
" I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist. "
Wanted
Years
Old
" Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely. "
Know
Knowledge
Experience
" Look: the day I've made a movie that I think is really good, I hope I say it out loud so somebody can say, 'Then you probably made the worst movie of your entire career.' "
Hope
You
Look
" My films do very well on home video. "
Video
Films
Home
" Scripts don't get movies made. "
Get
Movies
Made
" Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you. "
Success
Hollywood
Never
" The one thing that frustrates me more than anything else is that no studio has ever told me to tone down violence. They only ask you to make it more presentable. "
You
Me
Down
" There is no 'Top Gun 2' in which Maverick is not the starring role. "
Gun
Role
Top
" The way I like to describe Hollywood today is this: everyone wants to make 'Deliverance,' but no one wants to be Ned Beatty. "
Hollywood
Today
Way
" To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. There's even reverence to a screenplay. "
Reverence
Ultimate
Media
" What makes a movie now is a package, a brand, a remake or some preexisting material. "
Now
Material
Brand
" When you're making a film, you don't really have time to consider what the whole of your film is. And then, when you're releasing your film and promoting your film, you're looking at it in a different way. Then, as you move away from it, you start to look at it objectively and think, 'What could I have done better?' "
Think
Better
Looking
" When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring. "
Out
Exactly
Boring
" While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind. "
Put
Together
Writing
" With 'Rubicon,' Mark Long and Dan Capel have created the perfect environment for an intense action franchise. "
Perfect
Mark
Long
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