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

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" 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 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. "

" I like four-hour movies. "

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

" I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people. "

Do The Right Thing

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

" I like American history. "

American History

" Lincoln was the greatest speaker and he was ridiculed for how he looked, you know? "

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

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

" I don't think I'd have been as good as Bruce was. He was a better JFK than I would have been. "

" 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'm getting those familiar feelings, and I'm just going to enjoy the process of getting to know someone again. "

" You're this rat in the American maze, working your way towards the cheese, which is a job. "

" I don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived. "

" President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat. "

" If you think of 'Liberty Valance' or 'The Searchers,' there are moments in there that you'll never, ever forget... And it does not matter what century you are from. "

" 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. "

" I'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people. "

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

" I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day. "

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

" I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me. "

" I am a really writer-oriented actor. "

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

" 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. "