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" If I try to think objectively about myself and my work, I would say I want to be intuitive and distinctive. "

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" I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man... there is a tradition in the most simplistic of action movies for there to be some horrible villain. "

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

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

" I met a lot of women in the military with Meg Ryan, and they were remarkably impressive: Competent and strong and not versions of men, but versions of women. And they had stories to tell about how difficult it had been for them. "

" 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. "

" There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control. "

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

" You can't help but reveal your bias, and you can't but invest personally in any story that you tell. "

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

" 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. "

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

" A lot of superhero sequel movies, they resemble each other greatly. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Forgive me, but what is the purpose of drama but catharsis? "

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

" I had known a couple of people in college who went off the rails, who had significant bouts with mental illness. "

" I guess television is so much on the word. It's so much closer to playwriting - the scale is more just about the voices and the internal lives. Movies, it's a very different canvas. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You have to make choices always. It's about the omission of something for the sake of another. "

" 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. "

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

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" 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 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. "

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