Peter Landesman Quotes
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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.
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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.
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What interested me was the story of Bennet Omalu. You hear his narrative: Immigrant from Nigeria, landing in Pittsburgh, only to learn and tell the truth about this most American - and sacrosanct - cultural institution: the NFL.
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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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I'd followed the strange deaths of pro football players for years, sensing something odd going on.
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To me, film is the most complete method of storytelling.
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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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There's a constant dialogue going back and forth between the filmmakers and the producers.
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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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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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People go to the movies to have an emotional experience, not to learn information they could look up on Wikipedia.
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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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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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Tom Hanks comes with a lot of credibility.
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You have to find the movie in the editing room, and it can't be four hours; it has to be two hours.
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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 consider myself neither liberal nor conservative when it comes to foreign policy.
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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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I'm Jewish, not Catholic, but I'm a spiritual person.
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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.