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" People, especially press, want to pigeonhole you. "

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" 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. "

" Often, romantic comedies exist in a vacuum, and it's kind of odd. "

" I think to see American troops in an American city is, you know, the sum of all of our fears. "

" 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. "

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

" Anorexia is pernicious and not something which goes away overnight. "

" The promise of an action movie to a certain audience is not a bad thing. "

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

" When 'The Godfather' comes on, any time of the day or night, I'm lost because I'm incapable of turning it off. "

" I like to do everything I can to avoid rehearsals, even while we're rehearsing. "

" One resists categorization at one's peril. "

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

" People tend not to dwell on drama. "

" It's hard not to want to become Ken Burns at times. I'm interested in being a Ken Burns who reaches that 17-year-old who goes to the multiplex just to see a good story well-told. And if there's history in it, all the better. "

" I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country. "

" It's a harder time to make original, less conventional movies. But God, we need them! "

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

" Yes, illness is serious, but the indignities are also funny. And that defines my world view. "

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

" Ironically, it's easier to raise the money to make the film than it is to have the film find wide distribution. "

" I really look forward to that opportunity to be a student and discover things. That keeps it interesting for me. And I sometimes get easily bored, and there are still some things I wanna talk about instead of repeating something. "

" 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'm very promiscuous in my tastes. "

" I think that I am interested in the resonance between character drama and high stakes, either situational or political or social or other kind of elevated drama, and I tend to find that those things combust. "

" My very first job was working on a TV show that was a prestigious TV show and well done - was called 'Family.' "

" I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student. "

" There is nothing that is so serious that you can't also see its comic side. Comedy is a way of talking about the most serious things. "

" In my experience, the men of World War II, the vets of Vietnam, even guys coming back from Iraq, are loath to talk about their experiences. And the survivors of the Holocaust, particularly, are often very close-mouthed about their stories, even to their own children. "

" The Beatles in 1963 came to America and became international celebrities, but Bobby Fischer was one of the first, as Elvis was, more in terms of the message created around him. "