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It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.

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Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.
Absorb Attention More Movies
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The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

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You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.

Any Away Citizen Cuts
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No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.
Bad Enough Good Long
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It's the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy.

Crazy Hollywood Movie Over
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We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA

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I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.
About Good Movies People
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I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the buddy movie suggests audience research must prove me wrong.

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I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.

About Contemplate Enjoy Facts
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I wish there would be more movies about scientists.
About I Wish More Movies
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I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

Across Acting Actually Been
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When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way.

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One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire greatly, whether that's an actor I'm working with, the subject matter, or a book.

Actor Admire Aspect Book
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There's a tacit belief that actors shouldn't write books, they're sort of allowed to direct movies but there will be a lot of skepticism, and they shouldn't do artwork or music. There are these invisible roadblocks to gain entree to these areas for actors, and you kind of have to crash through those invisible barriers.

Actor Allowed Area Artwork
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Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.

About Acting Because Collaborative
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School allowed me to have outlets so that some of the pressure was taken off the acting. Every role in every movie, I used to live or die by. Once I had these new outlets, I relaxed a lot more.

Acting Allowed Die Every
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I want to make movies that pierce people's hearts and touch them in some way, even if it's just for the night while they're in the cinema; in that moment, I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin.

Actual Bring Cinema Even
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If there's anything about someone's life that's important enough to make a movie about it, I have to take responsibility to get all of it right. It's a huge responsibility.

About Anything Enough Get
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You don't want to be the guy whose back's to the camera in the emotional part of the movie. So, you have to be aware of the camera movement and what the camera's doing.

Aware Back Camera Doing
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My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him to watch.

Any Charlie Children Daddy
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I've got bits falling off me. I'm not made of rubber. That's from film stunts. Every single injury I have is related to a movie. I know that sounds fundamentally embarrassing.

Bits Embarrassing Every Falling
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I used to want to be a movie star so I wouldn't have to live in trailers anymore. And now that I make movies, I spend a lot of my life living in trailers.
Anymore Life Live Living
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I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would be possible.

Dreamt Movie Musical Long time
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Every two, three years there is a movie about the Holocaust because they want you to remember and they want you to be reminded of what it was. When was the last time you seen a movie about slavery?

About Because Every Holocaust
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With 'Django Unchained,' when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie that's just going to lay there and be safe. There's going to be twists and flips.

Amount Dealing Difficulty Flips
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It's hard to be a celebrity nowadays. It's not about your track record anymore. If you have a great movie, you're good. If not, people are ready to write you off. I think the only ones who are really winning are people like Will Smith. People go, 'Oh, it's Will Smith. I've got to see him, whatever he's in.'

About Anymore Celebrity Go
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Generally, I don't like to walk out of a movie. It's like a relationship - you want to see it to the end; otherwise, you won't know if you left early or not.

Early End Know Left
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My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.

Abraham Abraham Lincoln Carry Certain
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I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.

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The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.

The award Important Bring people Movie theater
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We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it's only a movie.

Actor Difficult Physically demanding Role was
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Life is like a movie, without conflict it is dead. The greater the conflict the greater the effort to overcome, the sweeter the triumph! Keep moving.. Don't stop.

Life Movie Conflict Dead
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I've spent many birthdays on a movie set, all great days

Spent Many birthdays Movie set Great days
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Making a movie is like a chess game. It's about constantly changing patterns, adapting to new things. It's not just black and white, as you know

Making movie Chess game Changing patterns Adapting
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Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Movie making Telling story Best technology Your disposal
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I grew up with the mindset that when you get home from work, you go to dinner and watch a movie. I don't want to be going to a club and taking off my panties.

Grew up Mindset Get home Watch movie
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Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.

Success Movies Rock
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Sometimes he fantasied that at the end of his life, he would be shown a home movie of all the roads he had not taken, and where they would have led.

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There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.

Movies Forget Life Teach
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I'm too grateful that I continue to grow as an actor. I hope I get better. I feel like I am. But it's a roll of the dice every time you make a movie. Nobody knows.

Too grateful To grow An actor I hope
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Watch a movie that makes you laugh or listen to a song that makes you cry. Embrace your emotions and be proud of what you feel.

A movie You laugh Listen to A song
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Movie makers now choose profit over vision.

Movie maker Choose profit Over vision
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Making movies you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.

Making movie Capture reality A photograph
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Sanitized violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.

Sanitized violence In movies Been accepted Upset everybody
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All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.

Life's Riddle Answered Movies
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Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality – that’s the main event.

Life Reality Main Event
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Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to use music to tell the story and give the movie a certain kind of mood. That's always essential to me.

Ideas Music Story Mood
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With each movie I have a different set of inspirations.

Movie Different Inspirations
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For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

Valuable People Feel Movie
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