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"Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film."
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"I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me."

"When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries."

"Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda."

"Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made."

"It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were."

"I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend."

"Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject."
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"When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't."


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


"Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction."


"I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong."


"The key is, if you're not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well."


"I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses."


"Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is so huge there. It will be a while before bigger movies go out in all formats; in five years, everything will."


"When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead."


"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."
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