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"I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can."
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"One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do."
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"I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role."
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"I don't even know what TV star means. I know there's a difference in how people approach you, compared to movies. They feel OK coming up to you and sitting with you in a restaurant, unfortunately."
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"Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that."
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"I can be in 20 movies. But I'll never be an actor."
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"Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege."
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"Sure, 'Twilight' is really huge right now and everybody's freaking out over it, but it will go away soon and I will be back to doing what I'm used to doing: weird little movies that nobody sees."
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"We work very cost effective and I sell my movies in 100 territories on my own."
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"I really detest movies like Indecent Proposal and Pretty Woman because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it."
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"The key is, if you're not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well."
Movies

"But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses."
Business

"When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't."
Reading

"Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it."
Film

"The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do."
Business

"To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally."
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"When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy."
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"Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that."
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"I like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script."
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"I love caper films."
Love
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