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I'm very promiscuous in my tastes.
People, especially press, want to pigeonhole you.
I, for one, suffer from a little bit of superhero fatigue.
Forgive me, but what is the purpose of drama but catharsis?
I know that when I'm writing, I always want to be directing.
A sex scene is gratuitous when it only exists for its own sake.
Often, romantic comedies exist in a vacuum, and it's kind of odd.
People who have any kind of illness use humor as a type of coping.
A lot of superhero sequel movies, they resemble each other greatly.
Anorexia is pernicious and not something which goes away overnight.
I've always been drawn to all sorts of genres and all sorts of voices.
Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.
Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely.
The promise of an action movie to a certain audience is not a bad thing.
'Milk' doesn't imply that all gay men who stayed in the closet were cowards.
I like to do everything I can to avoid rehearsals, even while we're rehearsing.
The issue of diamonds in Africa is inseparable from the issue of child soldiers.
There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy.
When we did 'Thirtysomething,' television was either about doctors, lawyers, or cops.
It's a harder time to make original, less conventional movies. But God, we need them!
The military has been actually remarkable at dealing with race, but gender is an issue.
Yes, illness is serious, but the indignities are also funny. And that defines my world view.
One reason why in Hollywood we are so often inventing heroes is that real heroes are vexing.
I think to see American troops in an American city is, you know, the sum of all of our fears.
You have to make choices always. It's about the omission of something for the sake of another.
I was trained in the repertory theater. You would do Moliere one night and Sam Shepard the next.
I tend not to go look at movies before I make a movie. I'd rather not be specifically influenced.
You can't help but reveal your bias, and you can't but invest personally in any story that you tell.
The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It's the mental toughness.
I might have painted myself into a bit of a corner doing all these big, serious David Lean-esque movies.
If I try to think objectively about myself and my work, I would say I want to be intuitive and distinctive.
I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.
When 'The Godfather' comes on, any time of the day or night, I'm lost because I'm incapable of turning it off.
My very first job was working on a TV show that was a prestigious TV show and well done - was called 'Family.'
Ironically, it's easier to raise the money to make the film than it is to have the film find wide distribution.
I had known a couple of people in college who went off the rails, who had significant bouts with mental illness.
You do these movies, you give it out to the world and you really have no idea how people are going to react to you.
The funny thing is, when you look at photos of Tuvia Bielski, he was fair, blue-eyed, and could pass for a Gentile.
It's always great to do a movie that you find is entertaining, but also can give some sort of political or social message.
There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.
There's only a certain number of movies I'm going to get made, and it's important to me that they each be original somehow.
There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other.
I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them.
I've never been one of those guys who storyboards every frame, because that would take away some of the mystery and some of the fun.
When you're in a fight, and you get hit, it hurts. And as you get older, you begin to take on the aches and the bruises of doing that.
The ronin were those masterless men who roamed around, and yet they found themselves getting involved in circumstances they hadn't expected.
I like to reveal people with some of the niceties of social behavior stripped away and the moral, ethical, and political issues are revealed.
I think it's easier to be cynical. I think the temptation, often, among writers is to write about anything other than real, true, deep feelings.
I do watch 'It's a Wonderful Life' with my children at Christmas, and I liked it long before it went into the public domain and became a cliche.
The issue of assault in the military is something that they've gone to great lengths to try to deal with - and have not entirely dealt with yet.