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  • For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would.

    Men   Years   President  
  • But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.

  • Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.

  • I love having made a film and watching it when it affects audiences in a positive way. It was always fun for me to hide in the back of a theater and watch Tootsie with an audience and hear them laugh. And it's gratifying 20 years later to imagine that they still can find it amusing.

    Fun   Years   Laughing  
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  • Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.

  • I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

  • With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

    Art   Creating   Culture  
  • I tend to be what I would call more progressive than conservative, but I think either extreme is excessive.

  • Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative. I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films. It's a way for me to understand what it's like to be a murderer, to confess, to be a beaten wife, to be a minority, to be a victor, to get the girl, to lose the girl. I can do all of that through the practice of an art form.

    Girl   Art   Children  
  • The dance that happens, between actor and director, is a very delicate thing...it's why people tend to work together on many films over and over.

  • And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.

    Real   Years   Knowing  
  • Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

    People   Film   Imagine  
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  • Relationship films are political. If a woman is sitting in a waiting room in an office and a man walks in and sits down, it's a political situation. If he decides to smoke, does he ask her or does he just light up? If he lights up, what does she do? It's politics.

  • I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films.

    Children   Numbers   Age  
  • When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

    Movie   Ideas   Actors  
  • People aren't interested in paying $10 or $12 to go to the movies and to be lectured to politically. I'm not either. So I don't try to make those kinds of films.

    People   Trying   Kind  
  • Making a film is a way for me to understand what it's like to be a murderer, to confess, to be a beaten wife, to be a minority, to be a victor, to get the girl, to lose the girl. I can do all of that through the practice of an art form.

    Girl   Art   Practice  
  • I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people.

    Mean   People   Mind  
  • Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.

  • It's always interesting to play people different from yourself, it would be boring for me to play myself.

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  • There's a religious basis to their [Bush and Chaney] kind of conservatism. It's rooted in a kind of fundamentalism. I'm afraid of that. I don't like that idea. I think all extremism is suspect.

  • Obviously its a good feeling to know that something you've done has lasted.

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  • Once I start to do a film, it has inferences. If a guy walks down a street and kicks a dog, you're saying something about that guy. A guy walks down the street and somebody's about to be run over and he shoves him out of his way and gets hit by the car himself, you're saying that guy's a hero. You can't avoid making certain statements.

    Running   Dog   Hero  
  • I don't consider myself a teacher of moral and political positions. I don't want to be that. I can't help but have a point of view when I make a film, but my first job is to entertain you.

    Teacher   Jobs   Views  
  • What I really want to do is produce. There isn’t much patience with a slow developing story line anymore.

    Stories   Lines   Want  
  • I see my job as trying to entertain you, to be balanced in some way, and morally responsible. I don't want to glorify a killer. I don't want to glorify a rapist. I don't want to do those things, but on the other hand I don't want to lecture to you, either.

    Jobs   Hands   Trying  
  • You mustn't regret decisions that you make. Because the decisions are made out of your gut in a way and you have to stick with them.

    Regret   Decision   Way  
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  • I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.

    Mean   Years   People  
  • Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies.

    Sunday   Weekend   Hiking  
  • I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.

    Believe   Lucky   Actors  
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