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" When 'The Godfather' comes on, any time of the day or night, I'm lost because I'm incapable of turning it off. "

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" It's hard not to want to become Ken Burns at times. I'm interested in being a Ken Burns who reaches that 17-year-old who goes to the multiplex just to see a good story well-told. And if there's history in it, all the better. "

" I've always believed that the stories and the performances are more important than I am. I think that the more invisible that my hand is, the more attention people can pay to the story and to those performances. "

" I do watch 'It's a Wonderful Life' with my children at Christmas, and I liked it long before it went into the public domain and became a cliche. "

" If you take away scale, the nature of the story changes. I made a joke the other day: if I were to try to make 'Glory' now, rather than be about a regiment, it would be about a platoon. It would be seven men in the woods rather than all the men on the beach. "

" I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them. "

" Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile. "

" There's a rising tide of concern among activists, economists, and artists about Africa. Theres a temptation to think of it as a monolith as opposed to all these different countries with different problems. "

" The issue of diamonds in Africa is inseparable from the issue of child soldiers. "

" I think it's easier to be cynical. I think the temptation, often, among writers is to write about anything other than real, true, deep feelings. "

" You can spend an extraordinary amount of time raising independent money to do a movie for very little means. I've done it with 'Pawn Sacrifice.' "

" Doctors are kind of this shibboleth in our society. We know what they do, and we depend on them, but we don't know a lot about what it feels like from their side. "

" If I try to think objectively about myself and my work, I would say I want to be intuitive and distinctive. "

" Movies, as I grew up loving them, were always about something. "

" The promise of an action movie to a certain audience is not a bad thing. "

" To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film. "

" Scale is not just something that a director wants so as to play with all the toys. Scale also lends verisimilitude, to put together a real world. "

" We've suspended the willing suspension of disbelief. We have given up that relationship, that almost hypnotic engagement, with the characters up on the screen. "

" The Beatles in 1963 came to America and became international celebrities, but Bobby Fischer was one of the first, as Elvis was, more in terms of the message created around him. "

" Growing up, movies were something my family and, later, my friends and I would stay up all night talking about. The movies I remember moved me and forced you to think about things that made you know yourself better. "

" People make the assumption that you're only interested in one thing based on the most recent thing you've done. But some directors can be pretty promiscuous about their tastes, and that's how I want to challenge myself. "

" I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student. "

" I had known a couple of people in college who went off the rails, who had significant bouts with mental illness. "

" You can't help but reveal your bias, and you can't but invest personally in any story that you tell. "

" The phone that you carry around with you. It's not just that it's a locator for anybody who wants to actually find out where you are, but it's also a leash. It's a reminder just how tethered you are. "

" My very first job was working on a TV show that was a prestigious TV show and well done - was called 'Family.' "

" In the necessary memorialisation of the six million dead, there had been precious little attention paid to those who survived and how they survived. "

" Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely. "

" I've never been one of those guys who storyboards every frame, because that would take away some of the mystery and some of the fun. "

" I watched aspirationally. I looked at movies that maybe I didn't entirely understand but which developed in me some thirst for their subjects or for their context, and that became part of how I came to understand the world. "

" The military has been actually remarkable at dealing with race, but gender is an issue. "