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" I always spend a good deal of time with the people I write about. I try and smell the normalcy of their lives. I try to look at the normal rhythm of their life. "

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" Like every other industry or institution, the journalism world is populated by the petty and fearful, in addition to the courageous and brilliant. "

" Large corporations have the ability to distract people with controversy that just distracts people from what's great about the movie or what works about the movie. "

" I can't worry about the consequences of what I do; that's not my job. "

" I wouldn't let my children play football. "

" You have to find the movie in the editing room, and it can't be four hours; it has to be two hours. "

" We've all seen 'Network' and 'Wag the Dog,' but we were somehow insulated by the fact that those were just movies, fictions, and we could rest easy that the Real News doesn't operate that way. Well, it does - sometimes. "

" Serious collectors and art experts, among the world's most educated, often cannot fathom the possibility of being rooked, and then once taken, cannot face the humiliation of admitting it. "

" Once you turn on the camera, making a movie is making a movie. I don't care if it's $9 million dollars or $50 million dollars. You have bigger toys, bigger set, actors who are better paid, but once you turn on the camera, it's director and performance, and I don't find a big difference. "

" What interested me was the story of Bennet Omalu. You hear his narrative: Immigrant from Nigeria, landing in Pittsburgh, only to learn and tell the truth about this most American - and sacrosanct - cultural institution: the NFL. "

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" There's a constant dialogue going back and forth between the filmmakers and the producers. "

" I start each of my scripts by going on a journey of painstaking research and discovery, much as I do a piece of long-lead journalism. "

" Each year, tens of millions of museumgoers walk through the entrance of the Getty, or the Metropolitan or the Prado or the Hermitage, and never consider the possibility of having to arbitrate for themselves the authenticity of what they have come to see. "

" I was a war correspondent. I've watched great people crumble under pressure and make bad decisions. "

" When you're researching something for a movie, you get a very different kind of reaction than when you're researching something for an article for 'The New York Times.' "

" Salvador Dali, lying on his deathbed in a stupor, is said to have been fed thousands of sheets of blank paper to sign for fake lithographs. "

" One way to test a picture's integrity is to turn it upside down - a technique used not only by connoisseurs but also by artists trying to see their work with a fresh eye. "

" I did nothing at the behest of the NFL, for the NFL, against the NFL. "

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" Refugees tend to avoid planes, airports and fake passports, even though flying may appear to be the most obvious way to flee. For one thing, security procedures at airports are far stricter than at land borders. "

" Tom Hanks comes with a lot of credibility. "

" The village of Polgardi is a dusty roadside settlement northeast of Lake Balaton, a resort area in western Hungary popular with German tourists. "

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" There was absolutely zero discourse between me or anybody at the studio with the NFL. None. The only exchange was one-sentence e-mails trying to arrange a meeting, before deciding to cancel the meeting. Period. End of story. "

" 'Writing' is the wrong way to describe what happens to words in a movie. First, you put down words. Then you rehearse them with actors. Then you shoot the words. Then you edit them. You cut a lot of them, you fudge them, you make up new ones in voice-over. Then you cut it and throw it all away. "

" Our brains have this habit of quilting dreams from the fabrics of our lives. As a filmmaker, I get to do it for a living. "

" Modern art, in particular, seems especially vulnerable to fraud. Its abstractions are sometimes difficult to understand or grasp, and a modern painting is often loved less because of its intrinsic quality - its beauty, as conventionally understood - than because of the identity of the painter, its mark of social status. "

" My politics are very centrist and sometimes, especially when it comes to foreign affairs, lean to the right. "