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" Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing. "

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" Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing. "

Do The Right Thing

" I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain. "

" Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies. "

" The 3D world allows you to engage even more with a film because you're somehow drawn into the landscape or the universe of that scene. Even when it's two people talking at a table, you feel like you're a third party. "

" I've always avoided sequels, unless I felt there was something fresh. "

" By going to a preview, a director becomes insidiously infected by the process, so by the end of it, you're thinking, 'It may be a bit too long.' "

" Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, to work in frames with minimalistic dialogue. And a lot of it is left to the imagination of the reader. To do that in film, you've got to be a little more explanatory. And that requires a good screenplay and good dialogue. "

" I think sci-fi can easily be PG. "

" Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies. "

" In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture. "

" I want to return to the epic idea of the grand, big Western, in the sense that 'The Searchers' was. "

" If you believe, you believe; if you're faithful, you're faithful. I don't care what your religion is. The same if you're agnostic. That should be accepted, too. "

" It doesn't matter how much faith you have or don't have. I just don't buy the idea that we're alone. There's got to be some form of life out there. "

" You just don't know when you get all the paint across the canvas how it will turn out. When you step back after you've finished, you say, 'This one is not so good. This one is good.' "

" Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would. "

" As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attributes as well as Plasma. "

" Sometimes, scenes are great without any music at all. "

" I watch a lot of 'National Geographic.' "

National Geographic

" Do what you haven't done is the key, I think. "

" 'The Duellists' won Cannes, but Paramount didn't know how to release a film about two guys in bizarre breeches, waving swords around. I actually think it's a pretty good Western. "

" They say, 'TV is not a captive audience,' but it definitely is. You can easily switch off the bloody television. "

" A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie. "

" I like a film such as 'American Beauty,' and I like 'Spider-Man.' "

" I like Wadi Rum - it's the best view I've ever seen of what could be Mars. "

" I think Phil Dick was particularly interesting in that, first of all, he was a very modern man and a very modern thinker, but I don't know what demons drove him. "

" I started late. I didn't make my first movie until I was 40. "

" I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different. "