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"I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations."
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"I've been campaigning like anything for restoring these changes. For 27 years. I wrote a book about it, well, a portion of the book was devoted to these scenes and why they should have been in the movie."
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"George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies."
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"I hate horror movies."
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"I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television, simply because I don't watch television myself. I'm into movies."
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"Make movies. Don't make videos. Videos are evil."
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"I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse."
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"There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can."
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"I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays."
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"That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years."
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"In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better."
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"One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia."
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"When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process."
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"I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations."
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"I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future."
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"But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing."
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"I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it."
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"You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed."
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"I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power."
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"I study history in order to give an interpretation."
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"Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies."
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