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"If you don't cast well, you can be in real trouble."
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"The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in."
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"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties."
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"If you don't fix latent failures in your system, you're asking for trouble."
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"If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done."
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"Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual."
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"I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look."
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"The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock."
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"But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in."
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"Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it."
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"When it was over, it was not really over, and that was the trouble."
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"I have gotten to a point in my life where I don't want to have dinner with someone I don't like."
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"First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't think it's any of my business."
Business

"I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He gives you a sense of intelligence, the notion of a guy who can think on his feet."
Man

"I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s."
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"I think that you can't make a movie without a script. But you also can't make movies without actors. You also can't make movies without technicians. And there has to be just one person in charge of everybody, and to me that one person is the director."
Movies

"A disk unbeknownst to the director can go to the producer in another city or in another office and that producer can edit behind the director's back much easier than in the old days. Since these dailies are now put on videotape, more kinds of people have access to dailies."
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"I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work."
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"You have to really work with someone who you think is going to be a collaborator, who you think understands what you want to do with this movie and how you want to do it."
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"I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has."
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"But I really am very active in the choice of the line producer with the producer of record and the distributing company, because I've had some terrible, terrible experiences with some line producers, particularly in cable."
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