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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 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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"It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish."
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"The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not."
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"Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire."
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"If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job."
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"I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation."
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"That's where my job comes in. Getting the E.U. and U.S. to agree."
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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."
Experience
"But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing."
Time
"I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed."
Leadership
"I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations."
Movies
"I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience."
Life
"I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious."
War
"I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history."
History
"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."
Life
"Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies."
Home
"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."
People
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