Peter Landesman Quotes
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I start each of my scripts by going on a journey of painstaking research and discovery, much as I do a piece of long-lead journalism.
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Most editors are just worried about their jobs. They're overwhelmed. They're underpaid. They do the best they can.
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'Parkland' is not out to pick a fight and start a dialogue about conspiracy.
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There will always been the prurient rubbernecking aspect to disasters: people who just can't get enough gore.
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The story of Bennet Omalu is a riveting story; it's just a riveting tale. I knew from the beginning if I stayed close to that kind of storytelling and focussed on the character, then the other stuff comes along with it, and the message becomes baked into the journey.
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I love football. I played it into two years of college.
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My politics are very centrist and sometimes, especially when it comes to foreign affairs, lean to the right.
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Film brings together framing and light and color and performance and music and all of that. To me, everything I've done in my life has been preparing me for filmmaking.
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I did nothing at the behest of the NFL, for the NFL, against the NFL.
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I can't worry about the consequences of what I do; that's not my job.
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I wouldn't let my children play football.
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Like every other industry or institution, the journalism world is populated by the petty and fearful, in addition to the courageous and brilliant.
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When you're researching something for a movie, you get a very different kind of reaction than when you're researching something for an article for 'The New York Times.'
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Large corporations have the ability to distract people with controversy that just distracts people from what's great about the movie or what works about the movie.
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Hard information on the quantity of bogus art sold is difficult to come by, in part because fraud, when discovered by dealers and auction houses, is usually kept secret to boost public confidence in the art market.
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Will Smith is the most successful money-making movie star on planet Earth, in terms of just how many people have gone to see his films, so Will is a guy who gets movies made.
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I was a war correspondent and journalist for a long time, and I was very near the towers on 9/11 and very shortly after in Afghanistan.
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Serious collectors and art experts, among the world's most educated, often cannot fathom the possibility of being rooked, and then once taken, cannot face the humiliation of admitting it.
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I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it's a beautiful game in many respects, one that allows you to follow a player from boyhood through manhood.
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I am an old journalist, so I always do a lot of research and dive deep into people's character, who they are, and their motivation.
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There was absolutely zero discourse between me or anybody at the studio with the NFL. None. The only exchange was one-sentence e-mails trying to arrange a meeting, before deciding to cancel the meeting. Period. End of story.
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I don't actually see that much difference between telling stories in journalism and telling them on film. The tools are very different, but the basic idea is the same.
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Life is itself an occupational hazard. Sometimes the things we love hurt us. Embracing and navigating around that contradiction is part of what it is to be alive.
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My personal sources in the intelligence community and the military are very good. They're excellent. I have very high-up, in-depth sources.