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" I don't think I ever take huge risks, though I'm not scared of doing so. "

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" In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected. "

" When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble. "

" If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life. "

" You have to pick the stories that you want to be involved with and the end game is you'd like to be a part of a hit. But I think your moral obligation is to follow your own heart. "

" I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films. "

" I am not a cynic. "

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" Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get. "

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" I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me. "

" When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them. "

" I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen. "

" We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock. "

" Lincoln was the greatest speaker and he was ridiculed for how he looked, you know? "

" I'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people. "

" What are we blaming? Is this Vietnam? We made a movie, it didn't make much money. I'm gonna be really happy if somebody watches it in 10 years' time and really enjoys it. "

" I'm getting those familiar feelings, and I'm just going to enjoy the process of getting to know someone again. "

" Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life. "

" There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out. "

" I like when my face tingles, when the hair on the back of my neck stands up. "

" I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life - people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a 'reality.' "

" I haven't tried to buffer myself. I like rolling the dice. "

" I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular? "

" I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check. "

" You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come. "

" There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be. "

" You just do the things that you love and see if other people can like them too. "

" I had a difficult time hearing my own inner voice about what I wanted to be in this life, because there were all these perfect examples of what a man actually does. The notion is that he goes to college, gets married and provides. That's what a man does. "

" I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it. "