Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" My job is to tell the truth about what's happening as best I can. "

Related Quotes:

" As we began to read more and more journals of men who had been in the Civil War and then been in the Indian Wars, we realized there was a whole universe of men whose souls had been shattered, whose lives had been utterly destroyed by what they had to do. "

" I like to reveal people with some of the niceties of social behavior stripped away and the moral, ethical, and political issues are revealed. "

" I met a lot of women in the military with Meg Ryan, and they were remarkably impressive: Competent and strong and not versions of men, but versions of women. And they had stories to tell about how difficult it had been for them. "

" You have to make choices always. It's about the omission of something for the sake of another. "

" One reason why in Hollywood we are so often inventing heroes is that real heroes are vexing. "

" If I try to think objectively about myself and my work, I would say I want to be intuitive and distinctive. "

" Forgive me, but what is the purpose of drama but catharsis? "

" Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life. "

" I know that when I'm writing, I always want to be directing. "

" The funny thing is, when you look at photos of Tuvia Bielski, he was fair, blue-eyed, and could pass for a Gentile. "

" People who have any kind of illness use humor as a type of coping. "

" If a director is really a director, I think he's interested in more than one thing. "

" Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have been around during the fervor of the match in Reykjavik and the rise of Bobby Fischer, so those two things conspired to pique my interest. "

" I've always been drawn to all sorts of genres and all sorts of voices. "

" I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man... there is a tradition in the most simplistic of action movies for there to be some horrible villain. "

" Every day and every scene, it's never the scene that you expect. "

" You can't help but reveal your bias, and you can't but invest personally in any story that you tell. "

" I watched aspirationally. I looked at movies that maybe I didn't entirely understand but which developed in me some thirst for their subjects or for their context, and that became part of how I came to understand the world. "

" I tend not to go look at movies before I make a movie. I'd rather not be specifically influenced. "

" Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely. "

" There's only a certain number of movies I'm going to get made, and it's important to me that they each be original somehow. "

" When my own son was 12, we didn't want toy guns in the house. So he just picked up a stick and went, 'Bam! Bam! Bam!' That's the testosterone of a 12-year-old boy. "

" People make the assumption that you're only interested in one thing based on the most recent thing you've done. But some directors can be pretty promiscuous about their tastes, and that's how I want to challenge myself. "

" I think there is a very powerful wish that we all have of being self-contained and having sort of opted out or choosing to remove ourselves from society and to have no ties and no obligations, and even no possessions. To be free in a particular way. "

" There have been bombings by extremists. They are not representatives of Islam. They're not representative of the vast majority of people who love this country, but nonetheless, they exist. "

" Sometimes when an actor and director work together for the first time, it's not as if there's a suspicion, but there is tentativeness, a certain amount of a right of passage you have to go through in order to get there. When it's already there from the beginning, it's such a plus. "

" I've enjoyed the singular focus of not going back and forth between the two mediums. It isn't about the screen size so much as film being where the stories I'm most interested in telling happen to be at. "

" There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy. "

" I've done all sorts of different kinds of action. We did a thing in 'Blood Diamond,' the attack on Freetown, where I carefully staged the action but did not show the camera operators what we were going to film - so it has the feel of documentary, trying to capture something, and that gave it a whole different feel. "

" I was trained in the repertory theater. You would do Moliere one night and Sam Shepard the next. "