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"To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally."
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"Masochism is a valuable job skill."
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"One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it's hard to keep track of them."
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"The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do."
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"What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job."
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"Lawyers have a dangerous job in Iran."
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"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."
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"You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that's great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we'll see."
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"The public don't know what they want; it's my job to tell them."
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"Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days."
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"We've been doing this for 10 years and it's been a hobby for a lot longer than it's been a job."
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"I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people."
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"I love caper films."
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"But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses."
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"I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films."
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"There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't."
Education

"A movie that costs only $1.6 million doesn't have to be a cultural event to turn a profit."
Movies

"Well, it's 15 years since Sex, Lies And Videotape, and if you hang around long enough you're having the same arguments with just a new set of people every few years and it gets boring."
Sex

"I just produced Criminal, this remake of Nine Queens, and one of the things that appealed to me about Nine Queens is that it was a performance piece, and that's the most fun."
Performance

"When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't."
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"I'm in the process of working out an arrangement to make some very, very, very small films in the midst of all these films and maybe that will help. But you get tired of talking. You just want to do it."
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