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" The United States military is probably the most socialistic institution in the United States. "

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" The way that one feels about the story line of 'Deterrence' can tell us, I believe, about each person's conservatism or liberalism and precisely how tolerant he or she is of racism. "

" Somebody - and I'm going to guess it was Hitchcock - once said that everyone has their reasons. If you remember that, as a writer, you'll write better than average villains. "

" I loved going to the movies, especially when I was a teenager in the seventies. How couldn't you in what was perhaps the greatest era of auteur cinema? "

" I can't stand to see myself on TV. "

" I really like iconoclastic casting. I really do. "

" I think people were a little premature in writing off violent movies. They're going to continue being made, and audiences will continue going to see them. "

" People tend to forget about nuclear weapons. We think they are going to remain in silos for the rest of time. As long as they exist, they are going to be used. "

" What makes a man is when you go against your own instincts to do to the right thing. "

The Right Thing

" As much as I like Michael Moore - and I'm on the same political side as him - I think his documentaries are really a batch of manipulations and lies. "

" I think that 'Straw Dogs' as a story is eminently re-makable. It can be modernized and Americanized without a problem and without giving up any artistic integrity. "

" I thought I'd give myself 10 years as an entertainment journalist and build up so much clout that there was no way Hollywood could ignore me when I started delivering scripts. Little did I know they were very good at ignoring it. "

" I still viewed myself as a reviewer when I was on radio. Was it appropriate for me? I think the answer is it's only inappropriate if I allowed it to affect my film reviewing. I don't think you will find any studio that said, 'Yeah, he went easy on us because he was shopping a script.' "

" I grew up with an infestation of politics. I'm just nuts about it. It's our form of gladiators in the arena, only they are not in quite as good a shape. "

" Anything about Iraq is a death sentence at the box office... You can't make movies about an unpopular war while the war is still going on - people don't want to pay to get depressed, though they sometimes will go to movies to get educated. "

" Sam Peckinpah's movies probably say more about him than anybody's body of work says about that person. There are running themes in his films that I find eminently fascinating, disturbing, exhausting, and exhilarating. "

" I admire how Tarantino finds music that's semifamiliar and not famous: undiscovered gems. "

" The common denominator of the great women leaders in the world - Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir - is that they're dramatically nonsexual. "

" You will never - and I mean never - be able to figure out if I was an Obama guy or a Hillary guy. "

" The fight to get a shield law barring the government from being able to jail journalists is itself a non-partisan battle. "

" I grew up during Watergate. I was enamored of the study of that. "

" There are a lot of westerns that deal with people standing up for their principles, and that is the predominant theme that has been in my films. "

" Every weekend from, like, 1974 to 1978, I'd trudge over to the Greenwich library, which gathered up almost every major newspaper in the country. I would sit there all day long and read and read and read the reviews. I remember being twelve or thirteen and writing to Judith Crist, Pauline Kael, and Roger Ebert. "

" There was scarcely a month during 1988 when Thomas Harris' novel, 'The Silence Of The Lambs,' was not on or around the top of the 'New York Times' list of America's bestselling books. "

" When you do a freeze frame, you have the opportunity to find the exact shot that you want - no guessing. "

" When you make a movie like 'Straw Dogs,' your goal is to have people's eyes remain glued to the screen. It serves you no purpose to turn away from the screen. "

" I've been a huge fan of Steven Bochco's for over two decades. "

" When you hire Sam Jackson, he'll figure out the character, and he'll figure out the character's look, and he'll provide it to you. With Sam Jackson, you basically yell 'action', you go get a sandwich, and you come back and yell 'cut.' "

" Most people with whom I talk, often quite educated, think the military is made up of knife-between-the-teeth grunts, uneducated robots without any kind of free will whatsoever - people who goose step to Republican philosophy and particularly the Bush cowboy mentality. "