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"Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie's any good or not so that's probably true."
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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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"I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat."
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"When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies."
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"If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'."
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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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"Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?"
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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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"Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor."
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"I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie."
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"Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility."
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"I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work."
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"Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it means taking what it is that you've done and hopefully you're showing it to a lot of people who like it."
Business

"I've always wanted to do a boxing movie."
Boxing

"I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort."
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"If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version."
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"I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago."
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"I get a great high from writing."
Writing
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