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You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How it’s read, you never can tell. Or remembered for that matter.
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Best Effort Judging Taken
We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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Destruction Force Praying
I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
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Country Film Half People Want
Obama took a bad situation and, in certain ways, made it worse. … I find Obama scary in a way that I had not done in 2008.
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Done Scary Way
You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It’s hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that’s great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we’ll see.
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Best Jobs Mean Somebody Something
I would vote for the man who’s lived life, who’s done different occupations, who’s been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I’d vote for experience, honest experience.
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Experience Men Real
Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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Christianity Concept Greek
I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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Country Gun People Use
I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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Experience Trying Understand
I’m going to hold onto my Blu-ray collection because I really think it’s hardware and it’s important. I don’t want to live in a cloud, all my life.
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Cloud Important Thinking
I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast.
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Differences Marijuana Weed
I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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Generation People Thinking
From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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Helping Moments Running
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
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Great Greed Movie Year
Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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Country Ideological People Security
There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator – greed motivating evolution. But there’s a huge disconnect between the classes. It is very demoralizing to work for someone who makes a billion dollars a year while you make just barely enough to make it.
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Country Evolution Greed Humans People

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