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"One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well."
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"Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling."
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"When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with."

"I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me."

"You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman."
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"You have to pick the stories that you want to be involved with and the end game is you'd like to be a part of a hit. But I think your moral obligation is to follow your own heart."

"We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock."

"I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics."

"I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen."

"What are we blaming? Is this Vietnam? We made a movie, it didn't make much money. I'm gonna be really happy if somebody watches it in 10 years' time and really enjoys it."

"I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched."

"When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble."
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