"What I've experienced, I'm trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way."
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"I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same man who left?"
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"There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and carries through to today."
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"The Greek playwrights, we're all beholden to them, every one of us."
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"I guess you could say Alexander the Great was a man who completely transported me and moved me and inspired me because of his idealism, and I'd go back to the Greeks, and I always liked Homer and all the philosophers and their way of thinking and their concept of honor. I think their concept of honor does apply to the modern age, and certain people that walk around are pre-Christian."
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"Just because we live in a Christian era doesn't mean we're all Christian, necessarily."
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"Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts."
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"Concepts of integrity and heroism and honor are still important to the world today. Some people behave well, and some people behave badly."
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"Now with digital, we have much better projection, and if the theaters are charging higher prices but providing refreshments and a clean, well-lit theater, there's no reason why this cannot go on as a senior-citizen-driven business for years. Especially with movies for adults."
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"We're all divided, but some of us have children, and we are invested in the future and would like to see good things happen."
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"I'm a history person; I love history. But I am conditioned by the present."
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"All the Greek mythic heroes had gone east, but they were myths. Achilles was a myth. Perseus, Theseus, Hercules... they probably existed in some form. But they all went east. That's where a Greek went to make his bones so to speak. And Alexander the Great was the first man who actually went east not to plunder, not to loot and come back to Greece - which is where the Macedonians wanted to go back with the money. He stayed. And he became half-Eastern."
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"My home in Hollywood is not a home. I do a film here, a film there, as they want it. I don't have a relationship. Like, Warner Bros. has a great relationship with Clint Eastwood and takes care of him."
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"Get the overall. Some of my films may have been crude at times, or tough, or missed the points, but I've tried to get the overall in. I think that's more important. You may miss a thing or two, but you move faster. If you can do it in three takes, do it in three takes."
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"I think you should do rehearsal and work at it, but when the camera rolls, you should be ready. Try to make it good the first time."
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"It was a tough experience with Alan Horn, who didn't like anything that was R-rated. So you can imagine he hated some of my films."
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"The only home I had was with Warner Bros. during the '90s. I made four movies with them then. Natural Born Killers, JFK, Heaven and Earth. Any Given Sunday was the last. And that was the end of the Terry Semel/Bob Daly regime."
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"I don't want to make a half-assed film. It's not my area of expertise."
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"I think any filmmaker will tell you when they wandered from theater to theater to watch their prints, it was disheartening to see the poor levels of light and the disrespect for films that existed in certain theater chains. It was always inconsistent."
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"Obama is now fighting for his life. He's fighting for a federal government. I believe in a federal government. I hope it sticks around. We had the American Revolution. There was this whole tension between the federalists and the anti-federalists. Then we had the Civil War. We had Lincoln fighting for it. And the secessionists were there. And we have the same issue today."
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