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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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Refugees tend to avoid planes, airports and fake passports, even though flying may appear to be the most obvious way to flee. For one thing, security procedures at airports are far stricter than at land borders.
Peter Landesman
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Melted down, silver is worth a little more than four dollars an ounce. But carved, inlaid, and engraved, and identified with a particular year, it becomes the direct reflection, often the literal record, of human history, our movement through time.
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To me, film is the most complete method of storytelling.
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There's a constant dialogue going back and forth between the filmmakers and the producers.
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I'd followed the strange deaths of pro football players for years, sensing something odd going on.
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I was a painter, then a novelist, then a journalist, then a screenwriter, and now I'm a director, and it feels all part of the same continuum. One led to the other, and it just feels like the natural confluence of all the ways of storytelling that I've been doing for almost 30 years.
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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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When a director is also a writer, everyone on the production looks to him, knowing he gave birth to the idea. There's a different level of viability.
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A museum's meticulous presentation - exhaustive captions, hushed lighting, state-of-the-art armature - creates an institutional authority that is constructed to seem impregnable.
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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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People go to the movies to have an emotional experience, not to learn information they could look up on Wikipedia.
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Tom Hanks comes with a lot of credibility.
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I consider myself neither liberal nor conservative when it comes to foreign policy.
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I was a painter before I was a writer, so I was always a visual artist. And my writing, to me, was always visual.
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I had a very strong background in journalism, so it's my instinct to try to be as fair and accurate as possible.
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I always spend a good deal of time with the people I write about. I try and smell the normalcy of their lives. I try to look at the normal rhythm of their life.
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Documentaries for me always felt kind of limiting. I wanted to go bigger. And I also love actors, and I love performance. So feature filmmaking was always the intent.
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Sony is the only studio without broadcast relationships with the NFL.
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Once you turn on the camera, making a movie is making a movie. I don't care if it's $9 million dollars or $50 million dollars. You have bigger toys, bigger set, actors who are better paid, but once you turn on the camera, it's director and performance, and I don't find a big difference.
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