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" I've always said that I don't believe in Santa Claus, but I could make a great movie about him if I set my mind to it. "

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" The movie business is not something that can come from the brain. It really comes from the soul and the heart. "

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" I know I screwed up my 'Godzilla.' "

" In tough times, we all hope for knights in shining armor, or the cavalry, to show up and effect change. "

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" I don't think you can figure this stuff out. If you could figure all this stuff out, then all the great filmmakers would come out of Yale and Harvard. It's not an intellectual process. "

" There are an enormous amount of techniques I wanted to beta test in television. You can't take those risks on a $100 million movie. "

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" I think when real life interrupts fantasy, it's always shocking. "

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" The Titanic hit the iceberg not because they could not see it coming but because they could not change direction. "

" These audiences are so damn smart, way smarter than the studios give them credit for. "

" The real trick to these movies and making the big action sequences work - and I've forgotten this sometimes and screwed it up - the characters really have to be humanized. Because you can have the greatest special effects in the world, but if you don't care about the people in those effects, there's no impact. "

" We've always had a simple philosophy in casting. We don't care if somebody's a big star or a little star. We just want the best possible actor for the part. "

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" We had an amazing experience shooting the first season of 'Leverage' with such a talented cast and crew and with the full support of TNT behind us. "

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" Most young American actors feel like teenagers. "

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" Stories about travelers coming into town and doing good have been part of our storytelling since the Bible. "

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" We intellectualize it, and we rationalize it, but it's really about a love of movies, and I think whether you're making an art film or you're making a genre film, if you don't really love that movie you are trying to make, you'll be able to tell. "

" I can tell you as a fact that if you'd asked anyone in Hollywood one year before 'Pirates of the Caribbean' had come out, they'd have told you the pirate movie was a dead genre. And it's not that it's a dead genre. If you make a bad pirate movie, no one will want to see it. If you make a good one, everyone will want to see it. "