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

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

" If I try to think objectively about myself and my work, I would say I want to be intuitive and distinctive. "

" We've suspended the willing suspension of disbelief. We have given up that relationship, that almost hypnotic engagement, with the characters up on the screen. "

" Movies, as I grew up loving them, were always about something. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I've done all sorts of different kinds of action. We did a thing in 'Blood Diamond,' the attack on Freetown, where I carefully staged the action but did not show the camera operators what we were going to film - so it has the feel of documentary, trying to capture something, and that gave it a whole different feel. "

" 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?' "

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

" Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely. "

" 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. "

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

" If you take away scale, the nature of the story changes. I made a joke the other day: if I were to try to make 'Glory' now, rather than be about a regiment, it would be about a platoon. It would be seven men in the woods rather than all the men on the beach. "

" I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them. "

" I've enjoyed the singular focus of not going back and forth between the two mediums. It isn't about the screen size so much as film being where the stories I'm most interested in telling happen to be at. "

" People tend not to dwell on drama. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I think most Americans probably believe that our relationship with Japan began in 1941. In fact, obviously, it began in 1854 when Commodore Perry sailed into Yokohama harbor and threatened to burn it down unless they would open up to trade with us. The imperial impulse was first ours historically. "

" If a director is really a director, I think he's interested in more than one thing. "

" 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. "

" Every day and every scene, it's never the scene that you expect. "