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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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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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might Positive Taken
Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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Country Ideological People Security
I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Country Giving Order People Study
Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original.
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Different Original Stories Style
Get the overall. Some of my films may have been crude at times, or tough, or missed the points, but I’ve tried to get the overall in. I think that’s more important. You may miss a thing or two, but you move faster. If you can do it in three takes, do it in three takes.
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Moving Thinking Two
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
A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she’ll appear in film and it won’t work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don’t know.
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Beautiful Beauty Fusion
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
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
For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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Reason Shows Television
We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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Challenges Enormous Fronts
I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same man who left?
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Adventure Home Men
writing = ass + chair
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Ass Chairs Writing
The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.
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Campaigns Country Going People
Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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Character Integrate People Strong
Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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Film Television Way

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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