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" The issue of assault in the military is something that they've gone to great lengths to try to deal with - and have not entirely dealt with yet. "

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" Scale is not just something that a director wants so as to play with all the toys. Scale also lends verisimilitude, to put together a real world. "

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

" 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. "

" The phone that you carry around with you. It's not just that it's a locator for anybody who wants to actually find out where you are, but it's also a leash. It's a reminder just how tethered you are. "

" There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control. "

" A sex scene is gratuitous when it only exists for its own sake. "

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

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

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

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

" I've never been one of those guys who storyboards every frame, because that would take away some of the mystery and some of the fun. "

" One of the great tragedies is that there is so much less open land available in Japan today. Many Japanese come to New Zealand because of its beauty. "

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

" It's one thing to plan and imagine what you want on a film, but when you actually arrive and survey the scene, there's a moment of, 'Oh my God, what was I thinking?' "

" Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity. "

" The idea that things can be serious minded but must be somehow balkanized in the art-house ghetto is very upsetting because I think it limits not just the audience who was already going to see it, but those who might have had their tastes developed at a younger age. "

" A lot of superhero sequel movies, they resemble each other greatly. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" One resists categorization at one's peril. "

" The Mitch Rapp novels are as thrilling and entertaining as they are relevant. I am delighted to be given the opportunity to translate them to the screen. "

" The privilege I've had over 15 movies over a very long time has been to make movies that were ambitious or grown-up, complex, that had themes in them that were sometimes political, sometimes challenging, to make these movies on a scale. "

" The ronin were those masterless men who roamed around, and yet they found themselves getting involved in circumstances they hadn't expected. "

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