"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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"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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"When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process."

Thought

"I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation."

Research

"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."

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"In any film there's always a historical implication."

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"I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take."

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"I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling."

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"I study history in order to give an interpretation."

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"I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history."

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"One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that."

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"Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies."

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