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" No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others. "
Tommy Lee Jones
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" Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused. "
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" I know a lot of cowboys and I've done a little work on ranches with cattle, and those people become your friends, and keep their word. "
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" The entire elementary school in Rotan, Texas, presented a theatrical production of 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.' And the part of Sneezy fell to me. "
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" Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity. "
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" How do you play someone in a movie? How do you do that? It's impossible - unless you know how. How do you cut somebody open and take out their appendix and sew them back up and watch them get well? That's impossible - unless you know how. "
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" I've worked in the film business for 45 years, and I want to keep on growing as a filmmaker. I want to see my visual life grow and be increasingly effective in this world. "
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" What appeals to me? There are things, points of view, uses of the language, habits of dress, ways of thought and believing that came to me from my grandparents and came to them from theirs. Things that are of good use in any situation, no matter what the future may hold. "
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" I felt like the luckiest kid in the world because God had put me on the ground in Texas. I actually felt sorry for those poor little kids that had to be born in Oklahoma or England or some place. I knew I was living in the best place in the world. "
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" I enjoy acting more and more than when I was 17. "
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" I have nothing against interviews. I don't pursue them. When people I work for deem it appropriate, I'm perfectly willing to serve. "
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" I've worked with some very good directors and some very bad ones. I learned a great deal from both. From the bad, untalented people, you learn what not to do. And when you work with very highly talented people, you want to emulate them. "
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" Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters. "
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" Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist. "
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" I probably watch less than one hour of television a week. And when I do watch television, it's usually a football game. Sometimes I'll watch a news broadcast for a few minutes. Otherwise, I don't have time. "
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" I've never really known what glamour is. "
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" I do not have a sense of humor of any recognizable sort. "
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" In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything. "
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" The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?' "
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" I don't fight anybody anytime or anywhere. "
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" I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do. "
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" I don't analyze things like titles. "
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" The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face. "
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" My grandmother grew up in a 19th-century world, and my daughter has grown up in a 21st-century world, and some issues, problems, dilemmas that these women face have not changed. "
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" If you look at how people use the term 'western,' you can only conclude that it means a movie that has big hats and horses. And if you really want to sound like you've been thinking, then you'll use a term like 'genre.' But all the hell it seems to mean is big hats and horses. Which is not all that deeply analytical. "
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" I love cinema. "
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" I like to make movies on the west side of the Mississippi River, and a lot of times, the movies I direct have horses and big hats in them and get called westerns, but that's okay. I used to resent that, but I don't anymore. "
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" I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival. "
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