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" The issue of diamonds in Africa is inseparable from the issue of child soldiers. "

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

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

" When we did 'Thirtysomething,' television was either about doctors, lawyers, or cops. "

" One resists categorization at one's peril. "

" 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 seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come. "

" 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. "

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

" 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?' "

" I think every culture - you can call it an American Ronin, a medieval knight errant, you could talk about 'Shane.' There is an archetype that I think is actually common to a lot of cultures, and even the Clint Eastwood stuff was probably as influenced by the Japanese stuff, and yet done by an Italian. "

" 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. "

" In the necessary memorialisation of the six million dead, there had been precious little attention paid to those who survived and how they survived. "

" Romantic comedy has come to mean a couple of moderately talented actors placed in implausible situations obliged to go through a set of paces that are all too familiar, the end result being neither romantic nor comedic. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I, for one, suffer from a little bit of superhero fatigue. "

" When you're in a fight, and you get hit, it hurts. And as you get older, you begin to take on the aches and the bruises of doing that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Those of my generation who grew up in the midst of the Cold War had a very, very strong awareness and very much were sort of influenced by the demonization of the Soviet Union, whether that was through the Cuban Missile Crisis or duck-and-cover, or any of those things that so affected us then. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It's the mental toughness. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm very promiscuous in my tastes. "