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" You know that saying, 'You broke it, you bought it'? With horses, if you don't make sure it's a good fit... they tend to break you. "

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" Plot is just not my gift. I'm fascinated with complex characters, and that doesn't mix well with complex plots. And by the way, when the plot is simple, you can move one piece around and make it feel fresh. 'Hell or High Water''s a good example: I don't tell you why the brothers are robbing the bank. "

" I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors. "

" Think about 'GoodFellas': It could be a textbook on how not to write a screenplay. It leans on voice-over at the beginning, then abandons it for a while, then the character just talks right into the camera at the end. That structure is so unusual that you don't have any sense of what's going to happen next. "

" I wanted 'Hell or High Water' to feel like a road movie and an exciting, fun film - until it's not. "

" I didn't know if I could make a good movie. But I knew I could make a respectful one. "

" The movies I make - the goal isn't a mass audience. They're not expensive films. So the attempt is to reach a much more limited audience - one would say an audience that enjoys films that challenge them emotionally and intellectually. "

" I've been fortunate to work with partners like Weinstein and John and Art Linson in developing 'Yellowstone' and am grateful that it has found a home in the Paramount Network. The show is both timely and timeless. "

" I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor. "

" You can really examine the suffering and consequences that happen when there's a loss in a family. "

" Some of the most fascinating scenes in 'Unforgiven,' for me, is that scene with Gene Hackman where he's talking about the Duke of Death that Richard Harris played, and he's basically demolishing this myth of this man very unwesternly - not what you expect in a western. "

" Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with. "

" My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions. "

" It's very hard for me to go to the movies because I know all the tricks, and I know everybody. I don't watch many at all. And the ones I do watch are generally much older films. "

" Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival. "

" As a filmmaker, you have to stand in front of what you did and make choices that you could do with a clear conscience. "

" Sometimes audiences want to see what we're doing to their world. It's our obligation sometimes to reflect it. "

" 'Sicario' was successful, but it was successful because Denis and the producers were, you know, they were very lean. It was very lean filmmaking. "

" To me, 'Unforgiven' is one of the best films ever made. Aside from the fact it takes the genre and kicks it between its legs, it's this fascinating deconstruction of the myth of the West. "

" I look for absurdly simple plots so that I can simply focus on the characters. Having an understanding of what dialogue's easy to say and hard to say - I think that that's helpful, too. "

" With 'Wind River,' I became fascinated with the notion of how you overcome a tragedy - accepting it, making whatever peace you can with it - without ever knowing what really happened. "

" I thought of Jeff Bridges in 'Hell or High Water' and Ben Foster, and I kept trying very hard not to, because you're terrified you're going to write this thing that then feeds specifically to this one person that then won't do it. "

" Sugarcoating doesn't do anybody any good. "

" To me, a purely good individual or purely bad individual, that's a comic book - that's a fantasy - and I don't do fantasy. "

" I believe in the Constitution - and I believe in common sense. "

" There's not a lot of pure evil in the world, but it's amazing how little it takes to do great damage. "

" I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth. "

" I work very hard to line up stereotypes and then smash them with a hammer. "

" You've been entrusted with a lot of money and a lot of careers, and a lot of people put their faith in me, and every director goes through that every time. "

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" I saved every script I'd ever worked on as an actor. "