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" I like to do everything I can to avoid rehearsals, even while we're rehearsing. "

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" To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film. "

" The issue of diamonds in Africa is inseparable from the issue of child soldiers. "

" When I first thought about the military - and this goes all the way back to 'Glory' - I learned really quickly that it isn't a monolith. It is really an institution made up of some people with very different personalities and people of different backgrounds. "

" Growing up, movies were something my family and, later, my friends and I would stay up all night talking about. The movies I remember moved me and forced you to think about things that made you know yourself better. "

" My very first job was working on a TV show that was a prestigious TV show and well done - was called 'Family.' "

" I watched aspirationally. I looked at movies that maybe I didn't entirely understand but which developed in me some thirst for their subjects or for their context, and that became part of how I came to understand the world. "

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

" 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. "

" You can spend an extraordinary amount of time raising independent money to do a movie for very little means. I've done it with 'Pawn Sacrifice.' "

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

" The idea that things can be serious minded but must be somehow balkanized in the art-house ghetto is very upsetting because I think it limits not just the audience who was already going to see it, but those who might have had their tastes developed at a younger age. "

" 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?' "

" One reason why in Hollywood we are so often inventing heroes is that real heroes are vexing. "

" I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country. "

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

" I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting. "

" I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them. "

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

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

" The Mitch Rapp novels are as thrilling and entertaining as they are relevant. I am delighted to be given the opportunity to translate them to the screen. "

" The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It's the mental toughness. "

" Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely. "

" People tend not to dwell on drama. "

" 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. "

" I've enjoyed the singular focus of not going back and forth between the two mediums. It isn't about the screen size so much as film being where the stories I'm most interested in telling happen to be at. "

" The privilege I've had over 15 movies over a very long time has been to make movies that were ambitious or grown-up, complex, that had themes in them that were sometimes political, sometimes challenging, to make these movies on a scale. "

" Scale is not just something that a director wants so as to play with all the toys. Scale also lends verisimilitude, to put together a real world. "

" It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come. "

" Anorexia is pernicious and not something which goes away overnight. "

" Doctors are kind of this shibboleth in our society. We know what they do, and we depend on them, but we don't know a lot about what it feels like from their side. "