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There Are Some Movies I Can Watch Over And Over, Never Get Sick Of.

It's A Very American Thing To Hide Away From Death.

If You Read The Good Reviews You Gotta Read The Bad Reviews. I Kind Of Think Of It As Like Being A Quarterback: You Get Way Too Much Blame When It's Bad And Way Too Much Credit When It's Good.

Our Pavlovian Response To Movies Has Gotten To Its Lowest Point Ever. You Look At A Lot Of Movies That Are Successful And A Lot Of Movies That Studios Hold Up As Examples And You Go, 'my God, That Isn't Even A Story. It Isn't Even Two Acts. It's Eight Set Pieces Drawn Out With Slow Motion.' The Difficulty For Me Was That You Had To Hope That People Were Interested In This Kind Of A Story.

Awards Movies Are Normally Sort Of... Life-affirming And Noble. It's Probably Too Much Of An Intellectual Conceit And, You Know, People Don't Like It When You Don't Lead The Bad Guy Off In Cuffs.