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" Just because the boogeyman of the Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore, it doesn't mean the world is living angelically. "

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" There's a difference between 'political films' and 'films about Iraq.' "

" Rehearsing is more about blocking in the case of movies, I think, and blocking, of course, is very important to the beauty of a scene. "

" I came to the conviction that film criticism, in and of itself, was an art. "

" I'm sure when 'Midnight Cowboy' came out, it took a couple of minutes to get used to the voice and the look of Dustin Hoffman, or to even recognize that it was Dustin Hoffman. "

" I grew up with an infestation of politics. I'm just nuts about it. It's our form of gladiators in the arena, only they are not in quite as good a shape. "

" My mom is an exceptionally wise and kind person. "

" The First Amendment is the First Amendment for a reason - our most cherished right. But it often creates muddy and uncomfortable situations, ones that are the source of great drama and national self-reflection. "

" I think that maybe human beings are conditioned to violence. "

" Every weekend from, like, 1974 to 1978, I'd trudge over to the Greenwich library, which gathered up almost every major newspaper in the country. I would sit there all day long and read and read and read the reviews. I remember being twelve or thirteen and writing to Judith Crist, Pauline Kael, and Roger Ebert. "

" I've been a huge fan of Steven Bochco's for over two decades. "

" The truth is that when a man has a child, and it's a girl, and he doesn't change as a man, he's not much of a man. "

" Classically, throughout all of our history, the movies in times of crisis have turned to military figures as heroes, because they are the guardians of our nation. "

" I don't know a nicer guy in the world than Alan Alda. "

" We make movies to endorse our own personal feelings. I am not, in fact, a documentary filmmaker. I've got my personal beliefs, and I'm ready to put them out on the table. "

" When I was a kid, my heroes were not baseball players nor movie stars. My knights in shining armor were film critics. "

" Take a look at Mila Kunis. When you see her performance in 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall,' you see a beauty there, and also a sadness. "

" It's not such a bad thing to bring some naive optimism to Washington. "

" I thought I'd give myself 10 years as an entertainment journalist and build up so much clout that there was no way Hollywood could ignore me when I started delivering scripts. Little did I know they were very good at ignoring it. "

" Most people with whom I talk, often quite educated, think the military is made up of knife-between-the-teeth grunts, uneducated robots without any kind of free will whatsoever - people who goose step to Republican philosophy and particularly the Bush cowboy mentality. "

" I really like iconoclastic casting. I really do. "

" Sometimes, anonymous sources, when merely stating opinions or running a smear campaign, are certainly cowards. "

" Anything about Iraq is a death sentence at the box office... You can't make movies about an unpopular war while the war is still going on - people don't want to pay to get depressed, though they sometimes will go to movies to get educated. "

" Now, I don't know about my peers, but I get nervous - okay, I genuinely freak out - when an actor starts trying on a Southern accent. That's for Brits trying to find the easiest way to sound American. "

" No matter how far they rise, women never stop being the caregiver. At the end of the day, women bear the emotional responsibility for their families. "

" Trump is the opposite of everything Reagan was. "

" Some nights I lie awake at night thinking, 'What's going to stop someone from smashing a chair through my window and coming in the house at two in the morning?' It is very unnerving. It's a realistic scare, which is the worst kind of scare that you could have. "

" I grew up in the home of a political cartoonist, so I was a junkie for politics. "

" The truth is that I have never created a president to push a political point of view. I am often looking to create aspirational characters; that's true. But, you know, in the end, it is really up to the actor in front of the presidential seal to decide exactly what kind of president you're going to get. "

" There's no need to make any film. The word 'need' is pretty strong. But if there's a purpose behind making the film, there can be a justification for it. "

" The way that one feels about the story line of 'Deterrence' can tell us, I believe, about each person's conservatism or liberalism and precisely how tolerant he or she is of racism. "