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The last thing my father told me was: 'On your way up, take me up. On your way down, don't let me down.' A father telling his son that puts some responsibility on my shoulders. He told me that, and I take it very seriously.
I think there are some people who have this thing where, from the very beginning, some part of them rejects convention.
I try not to pay any attention to clothes fascism and I'd rather be thought of as someone who has his own sense of style.
I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.
Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
I have done some tacky films, but then they were all my decisions, and I'm happy to have made those because they have made me who I am.
I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.
I take the fact that films cost a lot of money very seriously, but once in a while to have somebody say, This is a big scene, take your time with it, is important. That's John Sayles.
In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.
