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"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."
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"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."
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"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."
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"There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things."
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"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."
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"I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies."
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"I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can."
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"In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film."
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"When they tell me one of my old movies is on TV, I don't look at it."
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"When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world."
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"I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful."
Mistake

"Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it."
History

"There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic."
Character

"I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect."
People

"I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully."
Wonder

"All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love."
Motivational

"Fight the power that be. Fight the power."
Power

"I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten."
People

"I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets."
Music

"A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there."
Movies
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