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Doctors are kind of this shibboleth in our society. We know what they do, and we depend on them, but we don't know a lot about what it feels like from their side.
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If you take away scale, the nature of the story changes. I made a joke the other day: if I were to try to make 'Glory' now, rather than be about a regiment, it would be about a platoon. It would be seven men in the woods rather than all the men on the beach.
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'Milk' doesn't imply that all gay men who stayed in the closet were cowards.
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Romantic comedy has come to mean a couple of moderately talented actors placed in implausible situations obliged to go through a set of paces that are all too familiar, the end result being neither romantic nor comedic.
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I know that when I'm writing, I always want to be directing.
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My job is to tell the truth about what's happening as best I can.
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A sex scene is gratuitous when it only exists for its own sake.
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Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.