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" Tom Hanks comes with a lot of credibility. "

Peter Landesman

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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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" Like every other industry or institution, the journalism world is populated by the petty and fearful, in addition to the courageous and brilliant. "

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" I'd followed the strange deaths of pro football players for years, sensing something odd going on. "

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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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" As a journalist, as a screenwriter and as a director, I'm trying to tell compelling and truthful stories. "

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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. "

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" The story of Bennet Omalu is a riveting story; it's just a riveting tale. I knew from the beginning if I stayed close to that kind of storytelling and focussed on the character, then the other stuff comes along with it, and the message becomes baked into the journey. "

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" Life only has narrative when we frame it and edit it and call it certain things. "

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" I don't actually see that much difference between telling stories in journalism and telling them on film. The tools are very different, but the basic idea is the same. "

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" I did nothing at the behest of the NFL, for the NFL, against the NFL. "

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" I'm Jewish, not Catholic, but I'm a spiritual person. "

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" Our brains have this habit of quilting dreams from the fabrics of our lives. As a filmmaker, I get to do it for a living. "

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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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" Hard information on the quantity of bogus art sold is difficult to come by, in part because fraud, when discovered by dealers and auction houses, is usually kept secret to boost public confidence in the art market. "

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" Each year, tens of millions of museumgoers walk through the entrance of the Getty, or the Metropolitan or the Prado or the Hermitage, and never consider the possibility of having to arbitrate for themselves the authenticity of what they have come to see. "

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" I started writing screenplays myself and eventually directing. "

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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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" Most editors are just worried about their jobs. They're overwhelmed. They're underpaid. They do the best they can. "

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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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" 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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" When it came to 'Concussion,' I found myself with so many threads to weave. So integral to the whistle-blower's tale were spirituality, the cost of hero-worshipping, what it means to be an American, and just how dangerous the truth can be. "

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" Refugees tend to avoid planes, airports and fake passports, even though flying may appear to be the most obvious way to flee. For one thing, security procedures at airports are far stricter than at land borders. "

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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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" People go to the movies to have an emotional experience, not to learn information they could look up on Wikipedia. "

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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. "

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" My politics are very centrist and sometimes, especially when it comes to foreign affairs, lean to the right. "

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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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" I had a very strong background in journalism, so it's my instinct to try to be as fair and accurate as possible. "

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" I consider myself neither liberal nor conservative when it comes to foreign policy. "

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" You have to find the movie in the editing room, and it can't be four hours; it has to be two hours. "

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