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" The village of Polgardi is a dusty roadside settlement northeast of Lake Balaton, a resort area in western Hungary popular with German tourists. "
Peter Landesman
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" As a journalist, as a screenwriter and as a director, I'm trying to tell compelling and truthful stories. "
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" When a director is also a writer, everyone on the production looks to him, knowing he gave birth to the idea. There's a different level of viability. "
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" Large corporations have the ability to distract people with controversy that just distracts people from what's great about the movie or what works about the movie. "
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" I did nothing at the behest of the NFL, for the NFL, against the NFL. "
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" I always spend a good deal of time with the people I write about. I try and smell the normalcy of their lives. I try to look at the normal rhythm of their life. "
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" I love the game. I love to watch. I watch it with my kids. I'm able to divorce the beauty of the athletics from the corporate entity that is the National Football League. "
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" I was a painter, then a novelist, then a journalist, then a screenwriter, and now I'm a director, and it feels all part of the same continuum. One led to the other, and it just feels like the natural confluence of all the ways of storytelling that I've been doing for almost 30 years. "
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" Sometimes, in a fictional story, you can be more honest and truthful, actually. As a journalist, you're a prisoner of the data, in effect. You have to tell the story with evidence you can verify. "
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" My personal sources in the intelligence community and the military are very good. They're excellent. I have very high-up, in-depth sources. "
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Community
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" I've been writing screenplays for a long time, and a lot of it came out of the journalism I was doing. "
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" What interested me was the story of Bennet Omalu. You hear his narrative: Immigrant from Nigeria, landing in Pittsburgh, only to learn and tell the truth about this most American - and sacrosanct - cultural institution: the NFL. "
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" I was a painter before I was a writer, so I was always a visual artist. And my writing, to me, was always visual. "
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" I start each of my scripts by going on a journey of painstaking research and discovery, much as I do a piece of long-lead journalism. "
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" 'Writing' is the wrong way to describe what happens to words in a movie. First, you put down words. Then you rehearse them with actors. Then you shoot the words. Then you edit them. You cut a lot of them, you fudge them, you make up new ones in voice-over. Then you cut it and throw it all away. "
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" Most editors are just worried about their jobs. They're overwhelmed. They're underpaid. They do the best they can. "
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" I was a war correspondent and journalist for a long time, and I was very near the towers on 9/11 and very shortly after in Afghanistan. "
Peter Landesman
War
Time
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" I was a war correspondent. I've watched great people crumble under pressure and make bad decisions. "
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War
Great
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" The trains that travel the Chunnel are massive machines. The Eurostars are bullet-shaped and a quarter-mile long. They are pulled by a 136,000-pound locomotive and move in the open air at 185 m.p.h. and through the tunnel at 100 m.p.h. "
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Tunnel
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" I love football. I played it into two years of college. "
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" Modern art, in particular, seems especially vulnerable to fraud. Its abstractions are sometimes difficult to understand or grasp, and a modern painting is often loved less because of its intrinsic quality - its beauty, as conventionally understood - than because of the identity of the painter, its mark of social status. "
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" Film brings together framing and light and color and performance and music and all of that. To me, everything I've done in my life has been preparing me for filmmaking. "
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" There's a constant dialogue going back and forth between the filmmakers and the producers. "
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Constant
Back
Dialogue
" It's very dangerous for a storyteller to walk into a situation with a political agenda because you end up telling a story about issues instead of telling a story about people. "
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People
End
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" What I learned is that there are indeed some stories that are too true to tell, too revealing for the general population to metabolize. And too challenging to your reporter colleagues, whose turf or toes you might have tread upon. "
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" The itinerary of most antiquities from their source - tomb, temple, quarry - to the shelves of museums or private collectors is murky and often purposely concealed. "
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Museums
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" Documentaries for me always felt kind of limiting. I wanted to go bigger. And I also love actors, and I love performance. So feature filmmaking was always the intent. "
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" Tom Hanks comes with a lot of credibility. "
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" When you're researching something for a movie, you get a very different kind of reaction than when you're researching something for an article for 'The New York Times.' "
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" I wouldn't let my children play football. "
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" People go to the movies to have an emotional experience, not to learn information they could look up on Wikipedia. "
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