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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we’d been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don’t think people really saw this guy for what he was.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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For a documentary it’s so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film
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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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Hollywood is for-profit, is what Hollywood is. All the studios are owned by big, megacorporations that are the furthest thing from liberal you can possibly imagine.
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I gotta say – if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I’d love that article.
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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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We’re always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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It’s one thing to break stuff and damage people’s possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that’s dangerous comedy.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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