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" I might have painted myself into a bit of a corner doing all these big, serious David Lean-esque movies. "

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" One resists categorization at one's peril. "

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

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

" 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. "

" In my experience, the men of World War II, the vets of Vietnam, even guys coming back from Iraq, are loath to talk about their experiences. And the survivors of the Holocaust, particularly, are often very close-mouthed about their stories, even to their own children. "

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

" I would say that 'Schindler's List,' as powerful as it was, seemed to have continued with a particular iconography of victimization and passivity. That was the iconography with which I had grown up and to which I had grown accustomed. "

" Movies, as I grew up loving them, were always about something. "

" The Beatles in 1963 came to America and became international celebrities, but Bobby Fischer was one of the first, as Elvis was, more in terms of the message created around him. "

" There have been bombings by extremists. They are not representatives of Islam. They're not representative of the vast majority of people who love this country, but nonetheless, they exist. "

" Romantic comedy has come to mean a couple of moderately talented actors placed in implausible situations obliged to go through a set of paces that are all too familiar, the end result being neither romantic nor comedic. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I think that I am interested in the resonance between character drama and high stakes, either situational or political or social or other kind of elevated drama, and I tend to find that those things combust. "

" The phone that you carry around with you. It's not just that it's a locator for anybody who wants to actually find out where you are, but it's also a leash. It's a reminder just how tethered you are. "

" There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen. "

" I think it's easier to be cynical. I think the temptation, often, among writers is to write about anything other than real, true, deep feelings. "

" People who have any kind of illness use humor as a type of coping. "

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

" I like to reveal people with some of the niceties of social behavior stripped away and the moral, ethical, and political issues are revealed. "

" Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have been around during the fervor of the match in Reykjavik and the rise of Bobby Fischer, so those two things conspired to pique my interest. "

" 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. "

" In the necessary memorialisation of the six million dead, there had been precious little attention paid to those who survived and how they survived. "

" There is nothing that is so serious that you can't also see its comic side. Comedy is a way of talking about the most serious things. "

" The ronin were those masterless men who roamed around, and yet they found themselves getting involved in circumstances they hadn't expected. "

" Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity. "

" I've never been one of those guys who storyboards every frame, because that would take away some of the mystery and some of the fun. "

" 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. "