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I wouldn't let my children play football.
Tom Hanks comes with a lot of credibility.
I'm Jewish, not Catholic, but I'm a spiritual person.
To me, film is the most complete method of storytelling.
I started writing screenplays myself and eventually directing.
I did nothing at the behest of the NFL, for the NFL, against the NFL.
Sony is the only studio without broadcast relationships with the NFL.
I can't worry about the consequences of what I do; that's not my job.
'Parkland' is not out to pick a fight and start a dialogue about conspiracy.
Life only has narrative when we frame it and edit it and call it certain things.
I consider myself neither liberal nor conservative when it comes to foreign policy.
There's a constant dialogue going back and forth between the filmmakers and the producers.
I'd followed the strange deaths of pro football players for years, sensing something odd going on.
You have to find the movie in the editing room, and it can't be four hours; it has to be two hours.
I was a war correspondent. I've watched great people crumble under pressure and make bad decisions.
I've been writing screenplays for a long time, and a lot of it came out of the journalism I was doing.
As a journalist, as a screenwriter and as a director, I'm trying to tell compelling and truthful stories.
My politics are very centrist and sometimes, especially when it comes to foreign affairs, lean to the right.
There will always been the prurient rubbernecking aspect to disasters: people who just can't get enough gore.
I had a very strong background in journalism, so it's my instinct to try to be as fair and accurate as possible.
I was a painter before I was a writer, so I was always a visual artist. And my writing, to me, was always visual.
People go to the movies to have an emotional experience, not to learn information they could look up on Wikipedia.
Most editors are just worried about their jobs. They're overwhelmed. They're underpaid. They do the best they can.
Our brains have this habit of quilting dreams from the fabrics of our lives. As a filmmaker, I get to do it for a living.
I am an old journalist, so I always do a lot of research and dive deep into people's character, who they are, and their motivation.
I start each of my scripts by going on a journey of painstaking research and discovery, much as I do a piece of long-lead journalism.
I was a war correspondent and journalist for a long time, and I was very near the towers on 9/11 and very shortly after in Afghanistan.
My personal sources in the intelligence community and the military are very good. They're excellent. I have very high-up, in-depth sources.
Salvador Dali, lying on his deathbed in a stupor, is said to have been fed thousands of sheets of blank paper to sign for fake lithographs.
The village of Polgardi is a dusty roadside settlement northeast of Lake Balaton, a resort area in western Hungary popular with German tourists.
Like every other industry or institution, the journalism world is populated by the petty and fearful, in addition to the courageous and brilliant.
When a director is also a writer, everyone on the production looks to him, knowing he gave birth to the idea. There's a different level of viability.
I always spend a good deal of time with the people I write about. I try and smell the normalcy of their lives. I try to look at the normal rhythm of their life.
Life is itself an occupational hazard. Sometimes the things we love hurt us. Embracing and navigating around that contradiction is part of what it is to be alive.
Large corporations have the ability to distract people with controversy that just distracts people from what's great about the movie or what works about the movie.
The itinerary of most antiquities from their source - tomb, temple, quarry - to the shelves of museums or private collectors is murky and often purposely concealed.
Documentaries for me always felt kind of limiting. I wanted to go bigger. And I also love actors, and I love performance. So feature filmmaking was always the intent.
I don't actually see that much difference between telling stories in journalism and telling them on film. The tools are very different, but the basic idea is the same.
Film brings together framing and light and color and performance and music and all of that. To me, everything I've done in my life has been preparing me for filmmaking.
When you're researching something for a movie, you get a very different kind of reaction than when you're researching something for an article for 'The New York Times.'
One way to test a picture's integrity is to turn it upside down - a technique used not only by connoisseurs but also by artists trying to see their work with a fresh eye.
I love the game. I love to watch. I watch it with my kids. I'm able to divorce the beauty of the athletics from the corporate entity that is the National Football League.
Will Smith is the most successful money-making movie star on planet Earth, in terms of just how many people have gone to see his films, so Will is a guy who gets movies made.
It's very dangerous for a storyteller to walk into a situation with a political agenda because you end up telling a story about issues instead of telling a story about people.
A museum's meticulous presentation - exhaustive captions, hushed lighting, state-of-the-art armature - creates an institutional authority that is constructed to seem impregnable.
As a filmmaker, it's not my intent to trigger or shape national discourse. My task is to make as powerful and understandable a film as I can. What happens next is what happens next.
Serious collectors and art experts, among the world's most educated, often cannot fathom the possibility of being rooked, and then once taken, cannot face the humiliation of admitting it.
Sometimes, in a fictional story, you can be more honest and truthful, actually. As a journalist, you're a prisoner of the data, in effect. You have to tell the story with evidence you can verify.
Film is probably the medium best suited to reach the most people - the visual, the aural, the limbic, the intellectual: it captures all these parts of our mind and soul. No other art form comes close.
I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it's a beautiful game in many respects, one that allows you to follow a player from boyhood through manhood.