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• ‟ I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man... there is a tradition in the most simplistic of action movies for there to be some horrible villain.

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• ‟ I guess television is so much on the word. It's so much closer to playwriting - the scale is more just about the voices and the internal lives. Movies, it's a very different canvas.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.

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• ‟ I watched aspirationally. I looked at movies that maybe I didn't entirely understand but which developed in me some thirst for their subjects or for their context, and that became part of how I came to understand the world.

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• ‟ I tend not to go look at movies before I make a movie. I'd rather not be specifically influenced.

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• ‟ I might have painted myself into a bit of a corner doing all these big, serious David Lean-esque movies.

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