- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Guess
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wife thinks I have an obsession with social class. So I guess I have an obsession with social class. It probably stems from feeling like an outcast.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'm a very American director, but I probably should have been making movies somewhere around 1976. I never left the mainstream of American movies; the American mainstream left me.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately for critics and audiences alike, I have made several films, and some films with really terrific actors. And I say this at my own peril, but Marion Cotillard is the best actor I've ever worked with.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I continually marvel at people who can make films that reach five hundred million people. How do you do that? Everybody's different - I don't know how that works.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know this sounds phony, but I don't start out on a project going, 'I'm going to make an emotional work,' you know what I mean? You try to tell the story directly and honestly and with passion.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and the character, and the character and the audience.
- Blown Away
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to see 'Star Trek Into Darkness,' and J.J. Abrams, who's a friend of mine, made this film, and I went to see it at the premiere. Believe it or not, I was really blown away by the comic timing of it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that the family is this locus of support but can also hold you back and keep you down makes for good drama.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's never really been a tradition of making films about Jewish themes or using Judaism as a constant.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose I'm always trying to break down the wall between my characters and myself. I'm trying to make the film as expressive and personal as I can, even if I can't explain, for example, how important it is for me to be Jewish.
- Key
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- Nov 07, 2020
The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is.
- Island
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
The conventional wisdom is that people come to the United States, and immigration is so great, and they say, 'America, what a great country.' And a lot of that is true.
- Nov 07, 2020