"You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know."
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"Are you going to pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?"
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"When you hang a man, you better look at him."
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"I never expect anything. I am always amazed at why anybody goes to any movie or why anybody doesn't go to any movie. Any movie you make, you make it because you're hoping somebody wants to see it, but you never know."
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"I never considered myself a cowboy, because I wasn`t. But I guess when I got into cowboy gear I looked enough like one to convince people that I was."
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"I always like to try different things, different genres; stories that have a dramatic element and can generate conflict which I find appealing; where the characters have to overcome obstacles. That kind of thing is challenging."
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"I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there."
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"I can't do that to myself..."
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"In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey."
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"Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff."
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"I don't believe in pessimism."
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"It's not about you. It's about them."
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"I don't mind telling a dark side."
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"The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate."
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"Westerns. A period gone by, the pioneer, the loner operating by himself, without benefit of society. It usually has something to do with some sort of vengeance; he takes care of the vengeance himself, doesn't call the police. Like Robin Hood. It's the last masculine frontier. Romantic myth. I guess, though it's hard to think about anything romantic today. In a Western you can think, Jesus, there was a time when man was alone, on horseback, out there where man hasn't spoiled the land yet."
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"When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old"
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"Instead of calling everybody names, start being more understanding."
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"Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected."
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"Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it."
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"Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict."
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