And I think that, for those of us that aren’t religious, we need, or I need, art that stimulates the same kind of thinking about what it is to be a mensch, or a good man, things like that.

I’ve always loved movies, since I was a little kid, but I never wanted to be part of that industry. It always seemed horrifying, the way films were made.
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Horrifying Kids Little Loved Way
Local casting is just something I love doing.
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Casting Done Local Something
I always have a backlog of like seven movies that I want to make.
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Backlog Movie Seven Want
I don’t watch trailers, I like to go into every movie fresh.
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Fresh Movie Trailers Watches
And I think that, for those of us that aren’t religious, we need, or I need, art that stimulates the same kind of thinking about what it is to be a mensch, or a good man, things like that.
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Good Man Need Religious Stimulate Think
That’s the thing about a folk tale: It is always addressing incredibly key issues about how you should live and what the right thing to do is, which is really what I’m the most interested in – like the questions that religion takes on.
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Addressing Art Folk Interested Issue Like Men Religious
Someone once told me that movies are a universal passport. And its true, wherever you go.
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Passports Someone True Universal

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