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" The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face. "
Tommy Lee Jones
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" As it turns out, my grandmother, my mother, my wife, and my daughter are all women, and I like those people. I'm concerned about the issues that they face in their lives. So I'm a feminist, but that's not all I am. "
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" How do you play someone in a movie? How do you do that? It's impossible - unless you know how. How do you cut somebody open and take out their appendix and sew them back up and watch them get well? That's impossible - unless you know how. "
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" You should never ask a horse or an actor to do something they cannot do. Wisdom will teach you to find out what they can do and then make it easy for them. "
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" The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?' "
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" I do not have a sense of humor of any recognizable sort. "
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" Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused. "
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" I like to make movies on the west side of the Mississippi River, and a lot of times, the movies I direct have horses and big hats in them and get called westerns, but that's okay. I used to resent that, but I don't anymore. "
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" I'm always happy to have a job. "
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" All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly. "
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" Al Gore has been one of my closest friends since the day we met, on the first day of college, 35 years ago. "
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" No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others. "
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" My home town is very small and very remote and we don't have a movie house. "
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" As an actor I want to do as many takes as I can. I wanna shoot the scene... or shoot the shot 'til they make me quit. "
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" You can't instruct an audience to laugh, but what you can do is read well and understand the spirit and subtleties, if there are any, in the dialogue. "
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" There's an undeniable tradition of sexism in this country that ties into the move westward by people of European descent and different ways of looking at Manifest Destiny on the west side of the Mississippi River. "
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" In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything. "
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" I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I want to tell these stories and present these shapes, colors and movements as I see them, as I see them serve a narrative. As I see that narrative serve an audience. That's what I want to do. "
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" I know a lot of cowboys and I've done a little work on ranches with cattle, and those people become your friends, and keep their word. "
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" The tactic of leading people into... a war that doesn't make any sense by telling them they are under attack, and if they raise any objection they're unpatriotic, is a very old tactic. And it doesn't intimidate me. "
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" I have nothing against interviews. I don't pursue them. When people I work for deem it appropriate, I'm perfectly willing to serve. "
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" I play characters, and I try to play them in a manner that's appropriate to the script. Physical movement and vitality of language is part of character. "
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" In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect. "
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" I want to make movies about my country from my point of view. "
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" I think any stereotyping is too much. "
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" I felt like the luckiest kid in the world because God had put me on the ground in Texas. I actually felt sorry for those poor little kids that had to be born in Oklahoma or England or some place. I knew I was living in the best place in the world. "
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" It's important for me as an actor to know the entire script before you start shooting, and especially if you're directing, you don't want to be struggling with anything. "
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" I try to be as good a director as I possibly can. I try to be prepared, and I hope everyone else is. The preparation, I suppose, means just about everything. Little things mean a lot. "
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