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"In this film George presents issues that are important, essential and vital, whoever you are, about constitutional rights and the bedrock of a democracy. I am drawn to those kinds of stories because they inspire me - they are responsible to a populace and responsible to man."
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"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."
"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."
"The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation."
"Some politicians are aware of the Bill of Rights. It seems that the opposition party is far more likely to invoke it, to wave it in the air, this is what we saw from a lot of republicans during the Clinton Administration, and we are seeing the same from Democrats under Bush."
"Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!"
"Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy."
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"I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up using pipe tobacco. It burned slower, and it wasn't as harsh on my throat... It also smelled better."
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"There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information."
"So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends."
"It's like a piece of music; you never lose sight of the theme. Each scene pushes off to the next like music builds and you can almost hear the next chord progression, so it has a strict structure, which is very compelling."
"Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves."
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