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" When I see my children, and when I see the people who value me, I know how lucky I am. "

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" I was sucked into this vortex of a very conservative upbringing. "

" I wait and take on projects that I think can work. "

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" I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check. "

" I like four-hour movies. "

" You just do the things that you love and see if other people can like them too. "

" You have to pick the stories that you want to be involved with and the end game is you'd like to be a part of a hit. But I think your moral obligation is to follow your own heart. "

" When I do a Western, I often wonder what I would have really done in that situation. "

" If it's going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it. "

" If you're going to tear down a hero, you should never forget that you're tearing down someone else's hero. You're tearing down somebody else's son. You might have to face her one day. "

" I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that. "

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" I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of. "

" What are we blaming? Is this Vietnam? We made a movie, it didn't make much money. I'm gonna be really happy if somebody watches it in 10 years' time and really enjoys it. "

" I've always known that I'm a little out of vogue. "

" I am not a cynic. "

" You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come. "

" I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated. "

" When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble. "

" I like when my face tingles, when the hair on the back of my neck stands up. "

" I haven't tried to buffer myself. I like rolling the dice. "

" I split my time between Santa Barbara and Aspen. I live on a pretty fast horse. "

" When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them. "

" I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see. "

" In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected. "

" I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics. "

" I had a difficult time hearing my own inner voice about what I wanted to be in this life, because there were all these perfect examples of what a man actually does. The notion is that he goes to college, gets married and provides. That's what a man does. "

" Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor. "