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Lunch is for wimps.
writing = ass + chair
I feel like I am what I am.
Horses are very difficult to shoot.
Hell is the impossibility of reason.
As a dramatist, I don't have politics.
The first casualty of war is innocence.
I am a storyteller, and I do love ideas.
In digital, you can maintain the quality.
There's an electrical thing about movies.
Each actor requires a different language.
I think our life is a series of adventures.
We have enormous challenges in front of us.
The past assumes the nature of the present.
Anyone can relate to suffering in this world.
I'm interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
I couldn't despise a man more than George W. Bush.
I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
I study history in order to give an interpretation.
In any film there's always a historical implication.
I'm more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
You get much more heat when you do something current.
[Fidel Castro] has a very good [human rights] record.
I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
I'm trying to understand my life. The one that I've experienced.
For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
I'd love to do historical pictures more, but I don't know if I can.
When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.
The Greek playwrights, we're all beholden to them, every one of us.
We could learn a lot from the ancients, and we should go back there.
The secret to writing a screenplay is keeping your ass in the chair.
You always try to find the right style for the movie. That's the key.
I don't want to make a half-assed film. It's not my area of expertise.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
People are still living in the moment, and they feel the passion of now.
There is this thing about time that you can't see at the time you're at.
Independence is a state of mind. Independence is spirit without category.
People will go to clean theaters; they don't like to go to dirty theaters.
I'm a history person; I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.
We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
Every time you go into a movie, you go into the point of view of who it is about.
Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It's an ideological thing.
What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
Just because we live in a Christian era doesn't mean we're all Christian, necessarily.