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" Life is itself an occupational hazard. Sometimes the things we love hurt us. Embracing and navigating around that contradiction is part of what it is to be alive. "

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" There's a constant dialogue going back and forth between the filmmakers and the producers. "

" There was absolutely zero discourse between me or anybody at the studio with the NFL. None. The only exchange was one-sentence e-mails trying to arrange a meeting, before deciding to cancel the meeting. Period. End of story. "

" A museum's meticulous presentation - exhaustive captions, hushed lighting, state-of-the-art armature - creates an institutional authority that is constructed to seem impregnable. "

" Like every other industry or institution, the journalism world is populated by the petty and fearful, in addition to the courageous and brilliant. "

" What I learned is that there are indeed some stories that are too true to tell, too revealing for the general population to metabolize. And too challenging to your reporter colleagues, whose turf or toes you might have tread upon. "

" I was a war correspondent and journalist for a long time, and I was very near the towers on 9/11 and very shortly after in Afghanistan. "

" I'd followed the strange deaths of pro football players for years, sensing something odd going on. "

" My personal sources in the intelligence community and the military are very good. They're excellent. I have very high-up, in-depth sources. "

" I am an old journalist, so I always do a lot of research and dive deep into people's character, who they are, and their motivation. "

" Will Smith is the most successful money-making movie star on planet Earth, in terms of just how many people have gone to see his films, so Will is a guy who gets movies made. "

" What interested me was the story of Bennet Omalu. You hear his narrative: Immigrant from Nigeria, landing in Pittsburgh, only to learn and tell the truth about this most American - and sacrosanct - cultural institution: the NFL. "

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" To me, film is the most complete method of storytelling. "

" I was a painter before I was a writer, so I was always a visual artist. And my writing, to me, was always visual. "

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" As a filmmaker, it's not my intent to trigger or shape national discourse. My task is to make as powerful and understandable a film as I can. What happens next is what happens next. "

" Serious collectors and art experts, among the world's most educated, often cannot fathom the possibility of being rooked, and then once taken, cannot face the humiliation of admitting it. "

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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. "

" I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it's a beautiful game in many respects, one that allows you to follow a player from boyhood through manhood. "

" 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. "

" Each year, tens of millions of museumgoers walk through the entrance of the Getty, or the Metropolitan or the Prado or the Hermitage, and never consider the possibility of having to arbitrate for themselves the authenticity of what they have come to see. "

" You have to find the movie in the editing room, and it can't be four hours; it has to be two hours. "

" The village of Polgardi is a dusty roadside settlement northeast of Lake Balaton, a resort area in western Hungary popular with German tourists. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "