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I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

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I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

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When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

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Making a movie is a network of decisions that keep multiplying as you go. You leave a trail of decisions behind you, and that's how you start to see the shape of what you've done. When you get far enough, you turn around and say, 'Ha, that's the movie.' It's only then that you find out if it's going to work or not.

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You have to go by your instincts in casting.

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I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.

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The marketing of anything is full of exploitation and lies and hype.

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Film is a collective experience, as you know.

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Depicting a terrorist act in a film isn't going to incite terrorism.

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I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.

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I am not a visual innovator.

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Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

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I always go for the craft first because, to me, that's like an oil well - you either hit the oil or you don't.

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I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people.

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We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.

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When you rehearse a play, you spend four weeks with one goal in mind - to wean the actor away from you. You want the actor to become completely independent and to understand all the emotional and psychological moves within the character.

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I'd get bored if I... if I had to do a movie, and there was no love story in it, I would just be bored. I mean, I would do it, but it would be kind of boring.

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It's a terrible mistake when it gets to be a contest of egos. The actor is always going to win. If a director gets into a control situation and is overbearing, it's deadly.

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If you list the qualities that we consider feminine, they are patience, understanding, empathy, supportiveness, a desire to nurture. Our culture tells us those are feminine traits, but they're really just human.

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You can't trust your memory. You change it to suit yourself.

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It would be a great vacation to act in a movie if I weren't directing it. But to do it while you're directing interferes with your concentration, and I wouldn't do that again.

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You can't stop traffic on Times Square.

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Every time I am directing, I question why in God's name I'm doing it again. It's like hitting yourself in the forehead with a hammer.

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I sort of straddle the line... between personal movies and mainstream Hollywood.

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It doesn't matter what I'm doing - I wish it was something else. If I'm producing, I wish I was directing. If I'm directing, I wish I was doing almost anything else!

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I do have a responsibility, but I would make the most boring films in the world if I woke up every morning worrying about my social responsibility.

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It's my job to motivate the audience to believe. I have to get them to suspend their judgment in favor of involvement.

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I will not ever say that it's good to start with too little preparation, because that's patently not true. But I don't rehearse the way a lot of directors do, to stage a scene in terms of manners and attitudes and lock them in.

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The terrible tragedy for every director is to watch an actor do what you want and not have the camera rolling - and never get it back again. So I always try to roll the camera before anybody's really ready.

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Everybody's trying to make blockbusters.

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I fly an aeroplane, and I think a lot about how much I do not want ever to run into an optimistic air traffic controller. I just don't. I want a guy down there who's just waiting for the worst crash possible and petrified that it's going to happen on his watch. And then I feel safe flying into his territory.

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All the movies I've made are essentially character-driven movies about people that I'm interested in.

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I try not to get depressed about stuff I can't do anything about.

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It's impossible for me to go into a room or look at a location without a part of my brain photographing it - picking the best angle or looking at the way the light hits.

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It's when the lawyers themselves become bad guys that you begin to have a serious problem.

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I learned that creativity is all about being frustrated.

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