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" I'd get bored if I... if I had to do a movie, and there was no love story in it, I would just be bored. I mean, I would do it, but it would be kind of boring. "

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" Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies. "

" Stars are like thoroughbreds. Yes, it's a little more dangerous with them. They are more temperamental. You have to be careful because you can be thrown. But when they do what they do best - whatever it is that's made them a star - it's really exciting. "

" Audiences want to feel something intense, quickly, without wasting a lot of time. "

" I do have a responsibility, but I would make the most boring films in the world if I woke up every morning worrying about my social responsibility. "

" By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do. "

" Every single art form is involved in film, in a way. "

" I sort of straddle the line... between personal movies and mainstream Hollywood. "

" I don't know what the creative process is. I don't know how to trick it into starting or how to egg it on. "

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" No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it. "

" I fly an aeroplane, and I think a lot about how much I do not want ever to run into an optimistic air traffic controller. I just don't. I want a guy down there who's just waiting for the worst crash possible and petrified that it's going to happen on his watch. And then I feel safe flying into his territory. "

" I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor. "

" Good actors aren't enough. You need charisma. Can you imagine 'Casablanca' without Bogart and Bergman? "

" There will be people who are sensitive about seeing the American point of view presented as less than sympathetic. "

" I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures. "

" It's a terrible mistake when it gets to be a contest of egos. The actor is always going to win. If a director gets into a control situation and is overbearing, it's deadly. "

" The problem with filming something is that we struggle desperately to make three dimensions out of two dimensions. It can't be done. "

" I hate to say it as a pejorative term, but I work for the Hollywood system for the most part. "

" The marketing of anything is full of exploitation and lies and hype. "

" I don't get nervous talking about my films, but if I'm the subject, it's hard. "

" It's when the lawyers themselves become bad guys that you begin to have a serious problem. "

" I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people. "

" Like a lot of New Yorkers, I assumed that I knew all about the U.N. I was shocked to find out it's not like anything I had in mind. There are only six languages accepted there. It's considered international territory. "

" With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art. "

" At some point during the filmmaking process, you lose objectivity, and you need the eyes of someone who understands the process and has been in the trenches. "

" No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did. "

" Film is a collective experience, as you know. "