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" Every day and every scene, it's never the scene that you expect. "

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" It's one thing to plan and imagine what you want on a film, but when you actually arrive and survey the scene, there's a moment of, 'Oh my God, what was I thinking?' "

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" I'm always interested in the ways in which a character can inhabit either a theme or a premise personally, so that those scenes that are about his character or his relationship with other characters feel in context and don't seem to be apart from or oddly vestigial to the actual drama. "

" As we began to read more and more journals of men who had been in the Civil War and then been in the Indian Wars, we realized there was a whole universe of men whose souls had been shattered, whose lives had been utterly destroyed by what they had to do. "

" I had known a couple of people in college who went off the rails, who had significant bouts with mental illness. "

" When 'The Godfather' comes on, any time of the day or night, I'm lost because I'm incapable of turning it off. "

" I think there is a very powerful wish that we all have of being self-contained and having sort of opted out or choosing to remove ourselves from society and to have no ties and no obligations, and even no possessions. To be free in a particular way. "

" People tend not to dwell on drama. "

" If a director is really a director, I think he's interested in more than one thing. "

" If you take away scale, the nature of the story changes. I made a joke the other day: if I were to try to make 'Glory' now, rather than be about a regiment, it would be about a platoon. It would be seven men in the woods rather than all the men on the beach. "

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" There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy. "

" Often, romantic comedies exist in a vacuum, and it's kind of odd. "

" I, for one, suffer from a little bit of superhero fatigue. "

" My job is to tell the truth about what's happening as best I can. "

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" The military has been actually remarkable at dealing with race, but gender is an issue. "

" I tend not to go look at movies before I make a movie. I'd rather not be specifically influenced. "

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" In my office, we were talking about the fact that they'd announced a remake of 'A Star is Born,' and I was bemoaning the idea of a fourth remake. And the young guys who work in my office were giving me blank looks, like, 'What's 'A Star is Born?' "

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" There's a rising tide of concern among activists, economists, and artists about Africa. Theres a temptation to think of it as a monolith as opposed to all these different countries with different problems. "

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" When we did 'Thirtysomething,' television was either about doctors, lawyers, or cops. "

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