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

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" In my experience of the men of action I have met - whether from the Second World War or Iraq or Vietnam - they often had to do things that they would rather not reflect upon afterwards. This is perhaps one reason why the story of the Bielskis remained untold for so long. "

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

" Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile. "

" I think it's easier to be cynical. I think the temptation, often, among writers is to write about anything other than real, true, deep feelings. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The thing that has always interested me - amidst the scale, the historical spectacle, or the social significance or the political resonance - has been the relationships. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There have been bombings by extremists. They are not representatives of Islam. They're not representative of the vast majority of people who love this country, but nonetheless, they exist. "

" The military has been actually remarkable at dealing with race, but gender is an issue. "

" 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. "

" 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 had known a couple of people in college who went off the rails, who had significant bouts with mental illness. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I might have painted myself into a bit of a corner doing all these big, serious David Lean-esque movies. "

" 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. "

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

" There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed. "

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

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" You can't help but reveal your bias, and you can't but invest personally in any story that you tell. "

" I'm always interested in the ways in which a character can inhabit either a theme or a premise personally, so that those scenes that are about his character or his relationship with other characters feel in context and don't seem to be apart from or oddly vestigial to the actual drama. "