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"But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame."
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"There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives."
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"Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies."
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"If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down."
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"I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act."
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"I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can."
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"I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge."
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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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"For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid."
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"When we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies."
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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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"I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus."
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"I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form."
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"There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence."
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"We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art."
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"One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it."
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"When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality."
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"I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films."
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"What I don't have in theater is editing."
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"You program music with an image and then people are desensitized."
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"It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous."
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