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“The muscle memory of filtering away all the wrong versions of what you're doing improves the more time you're on a film set. I feel like my problem-solving algorithm got kicked up a notch.”

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Truth and facts have to trump partisanship. There has to be something that's true regardless of what your angle is on it.

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I have a friend whose theory is that you're from wherever you went to high school. I think that's mostly true.

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You should never assume anything coming from a critical standpoint. You should go into everything assuming you're going to get crushed.

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A movie is something you see, cinema is something that’s made.

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If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some long-term value.

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Everybody, including me, has to submit to what it needs to be. The thing is at the top of the pyramid, the best version…

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The reverberation of the freedom of making 'Schizopolis' absolutely resulted in 'Out of Sight' and everything that followed.

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I've never been a snob. It [movie] is just about stories. And I've never felt just because it's a big screen and you plop…

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