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" I'm Jewish, not Catholic, but I'm a spiritual person. "

Peter Landesman

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" I was a war correspondent. I've watched great people crumble under pressure and make bad decisions. "

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" Film is probably the medium best suited to reach the most people - the visual, the aural, the limbic, the intellectual: it captures all these parts of our mind and soul. No other art form comes close. "

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" I was doing an investigative article on arms trafficking that was taking me through Eastern Europe and the Middle East. And after I had interviewed a helicopter pilot who had been ferrying weapons into Liberia, I realized as I left the restaurant that I was being followed and set up for an ambush. "

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" The itinerary of most antiquities from their source - tomb, temple, quarry - to the shelves of museums or private collectors is murky and often purposely concealed. "

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" I start each of my scripts by going on a journey of painstaking research and discovery, much as I do a piece of long-lead journalism. "

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" Melted down, silver is worth a little more than four dollars an ounce. But carved, inlaid, and engraved, and identified with a particular year, it becomes the direct reflection, often the literal record, of human history, our movement through time. "

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" I consider myself neither liberal nor conservative when it comes to foreign policy. "

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" I can't worry about the consequences of what I do; that's not my job. "

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" I don't actually see that much difference between telling stories in journalism and telling them on film. The tools are very different, but the basic idea is the same. "

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" I always spend a good deal of time with the people I write about. I try and smell the normalcy of their lives. I try to look at the normal rhythm of their life. "

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" I did nothing at the behest of the NFL, for the NFL, against the NFL. "

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" 14th- and 15th-century drawings are almost unheard-of - and as a result, they generate jealous desire among dealers and curators. Museums in particular value rarity and pedigree more than attractiveness. "

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" Sometimes, in a fictional story, you can be more honest and truthful, actually. As a journalist, you're a prisoner of the data, in effect. You have to tell the story with evidence you can verify. "

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" Large corporations have the ability to distract people with controversy that just distracts people from what's great about the movie or what works about the movie. "

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