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" I am an old journalist, so I always do a lot of research and dive deep into people's character, who they are, and their motivation. "
Peter Landesman
Character
Research
Deep
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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. "
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" The itinerary of most antiquities from their source - tomb, temple, quarry - to the shelves of museums or private collectors is murky and often purposely concealed. "
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" Life is itself an occupational hazard. Sometimes the things we love hurt us. Embracing and navigating around that contradiction is part of what it is to be alive. "
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" You have to find the movie in the editing room, and it can't be four hours; it has to be two hours. "
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" When a director is also a writer, everyone on the production looks to him, knowing he gave birth to the idea. There's a different level of viability. "
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" I wouldn't let my children play football. "
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" I love football. I played it into two years of college. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" I was a painter before I was a writer, so I was always a visual artist. And my writing, to me, was always visual. "
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" I was a war correspondent and journalist for a long time, and I was very near the towers on 9/11 and very shortly after in Afghanistan. "
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" People go to the movies to have an emotional experience, not to learn information they could look up on Wikipedia. "
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" When it came to 'Concussion,' I found myself with so many threads to weave. So integral to the whistle-blower's tale were spirituality, the cost of hero-worshipping, what it means to be an American, and just how dangerous the truth can be. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" I can't worry about the consequences of what I do; that's not my job. "
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" There will always been the prurient rubbernecking aspect to disasters: people who just can't get enough gore. "
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" I did nothing at the behest of the NFL, for the NFL, against the NFL. "
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" I was a painter, then a novelist, then a journalist, then a screenwriter, and now I'm a director, and it feels all part of the same continuum. One led to the other, and it just feels like the natural confluence of all the ways of storytelling that I've been doing for almost 30 years. "
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" 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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" Film brings together framing and light and color and performance and music and all of that. To me, everything I've done in my life has been preparing me for filmmaking. "
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" As a journalist, as a screenwriter and as a director, I'm trying to tell compelling and truthful stories. "
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" It's very dangerous for a storyteller to walk into a situation with a political agenda because you end up telling a story about issues instead of telling a story about people. "
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" To me, film is the most complete method of storytelling. "
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" I love writing in compressed time periods because the act of survival in the midst of panic and fear, that's where true heroism comes. If you have a uniform, and you're expected to do things, it's a sort of incremental heroism. "
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" I don't actually see that much difference between telling stories in journalism and telling them on film. The tools are very different, but the basic idea is the same. "
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" Even the two novels I've written were based on true stories. It's how I'm wired - real life is fascinating and fantastical enough. The kind of journalism I did unpeeled lids from cans otherwise sealed. "
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" I was doing an investigative article on arms trafficking that was taking me through Eastern Europe and the Middle East. And after I had interviewed a helicopter pilot who had been ferrying weapons into Liberia, I realized as I left the restaurant that I was being followed and set up for an ambush. "
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" I had a very strong background in journalism, so it's my instinct to try to be as fair and accurate as possible. "
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" 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.' "
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