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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wonderful thing about Clint is you can never second guess how he is going to react to anything.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just asked myself, what piece of that man's soul did he just chew off and swallow to get next week's assignment? You know, just to live, just to work as an artist, or to feed the family?
- Good Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I miss my mother very, very much.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it's affected us and the world.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
We give you characters we'd feel very comfortable judging, and then go: 'Oh yeah? Watch this'.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Crash' was incredibly personal to me. So was 'In the Valley of Elah.' There were things in 'The Next Three Days' that were questions I was asking myself but couldn't answer, like how far would you go for love? Can you believe in somebody who can't even believe in themselves? But this is highly personal.
- Devoured
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved American filmmakers when I was growing up. I didn't get to film school or anything. I was a very bad student. I just devoured film, but there was a point in my teens when I started to run a little film society.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know how much credit I can take for 'Walker, Texas Ranger,' because I only worked on it for three weeks. I re-wrote the pilot, and then my name was on it forever.
- Cinema
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I discovered European filmmakers, it affected me so deeply. It redefined what cinema could be. I mean, 'Blow-Up' ends with a dead body and mimes playing tennis. What?
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made a very good living as a bad writer. I wrote a lot of comedies, 'Diff'rent Strokes,' 'Facts of Life,' while all my friends were doing the good shows, like 'Cheers,' but I loved it because I got to be a working writer in Hollywood.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote an episode for 'thirtysomething,' and a producer said, 'That's really good, but what is it about? What does it say about you? What questions are you asking yourself?' I had never thought about that. This comment changed who I was, because it made me look at my own soul, the dark corners in my soul, and accept that dark side.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Crash' came from personal experience. I saw things inside me from living in L.A. that made me uncomfortable. I saw horrible things in people and saw terrible things in myself. I saw a black director completely humiliated, but the three people around me just thought it was funny. 'No,' I said, 'that is selling your soul.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even in a comedy, you have to make people feel. You have to put your hand inside their soul and twist out their heart.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't pay much attention to the press. My films always get good reviews and bad reviews. I just try to make the best film I can.
- Empathy
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing more painful than writing.
- Good People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great majority of Scientologists I know are good people who are genuinely interested in improving conditions on this planet and helping others.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.
- Empathize
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just love actors, and I've always loved actors. I empathize with their job. Everyone thinks it's easy, and it ain't. To be that vulnerable and brave on camera is tough. The more they reveal themselves, the more we love them, but there's a lot of truth in what they're showing.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Scientology, in the Ethics Conditions, as you go down from Normal through Doubt, then you get to Enemy, and, finally, near the bottom, there is Treason.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have so many questions about love. How do you win at it? Especially if you're in a relationship with an impossible person? What if you believe in someone who's completely untrustworthy, who at their core can't even believe in themselves?
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My kids paid the price for my career. We can say it's for our family, but it almost never is. It's about us. It's just some of us can pretend better than others.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am really drawn to damaged characters, and I have a lot of sympathy for them. Making those complicated characters empathetic is something to strive for. It's too easy to create a good guy or a good girl.
- Nov 07, 2020
Even a modicum of celebrity is hard to deal with. You see it with actors and directors all the time.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm such an antsy type of person. I can't write in a room without other people around. I write in coffee shops.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like it when an actor is secure enough to ask questions, and the director is secure enough not to be threatened by that.
- Irish
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- Nov 07, 2020
Irish and Italian are my two favourite people.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a filmmaker, and I was most influenced by Hitchcock's films. How he could plant such deep enriched characters and then make us care both about the antagonist and protagonist was masterful.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't plan for people to like your movies. I knew that people were not going to run in droves to the theater for the 'In the Valley of Elah.' I knew they might not want to see it, but I still had to the movie; I felt very strongly about it. Wanting to keep telling a good story is what you want to do, a compelling story.
- Good Movie
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if 'Crash' is a good movie or not because I didn't set out to make a movie. Really, what I wanted to do is more of a social experiment.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought 'The King's Speech' was great.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never pretended to be the best Scientologist, but I openly and vigorously defended the church whenever it was criticized, as I railed against the kind of intolerance that I believed was directed against it. I had my disagreements, but I dealt with them internally.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I'm against all wars, but you'd have to have a damn good reason to send your son or daughter to fight, or to go yourself. So often, we are lied to and manipulated by our governments for their own very cynical reasons.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
My one guiding rule for success in the film world would be, be careful of your friends.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I moved to Hollywood when I was 22. I was married. I had a kid right away. And I had worked as a furniture mover amongst various other jobs, and I'd work eight, ten hours a day to support my family - and I'd come home and write for two hours a night or two and a half, or three hours a night.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the most interesting people are ones who often work against their best interests. Bad choices. They go in directions where you go, 'No no no nooo!' You push away someone who is trying to love you, you hurt someone who's trying to get your trust, or you love someone you shouldn't.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my work is partly biographical. I mean, 'Crash' was absolutely that, absolutely. But you just wouldn't recognize me in most of those characters. But I was in every single one of those characters in 'Crash,' because those were all fears that I had felt. Things that I had thought in my deepest, darkest heart.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020