1. “Anytime there’s an actual grassroots movement that isn’t funded by people trying to create a grassroots movements, I find that interesting.”
2. “I don’t think Hollywood will have much to do with changing politics. Hollywood usually reflects things.”
3. “I’ve always been an optimist.”
4. “I’m interested in making films that ask questions and don’t provide particularly provide answers.”
5. “The directors are always sharp. It’s true.”
6. “I know love at first sight can work. It happened to my parents.”
7. “Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.”
8. “The secret of directing is working with really good people.”
9. “We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must not walk in fear of one another. We must not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.”
10. “Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart.”
11. “The rehearsal process in general is about trusting one another.”
12. “Life’s better with company. Everybody needs a co-pilot.”
13. “You can’t legislate good taste.”
14. “I’m always a sort of optimistic about how good we are, as a country, at fixing ourselves.”
15. “I enjoy directing. I don’t know whether it’s improving or not, but it’s certainly evolving in different directions.”
16. “I’m not smart enough and I don’t know enough about what’s going on.”
17. “The only failure is not to try.”
18. “Getting older is not something that you’re not much concerned with.”
19. “The simple truth is that everyone has an opinion, everyone has the right to voice it, an they should if they want to.”
20. “Directing is really exciting. in the end, it’s more fun to be the painter than the paint.”
21. “You never learn much from hearing yourself talk.”
22. “Anyone would be lying if they said they didn’t get lonely at times.”
23. “I’m certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything.”
24. “Love trumps hate. Courage loves fear. Right always trumps wrong.”
25. “You learn from the mistakes you make and from the mistakes other people make. The truth is, you don’t learn from success; you learn from failure.”
26. “Shutting down the government is not how you make government work.”
27. “We’re picking on people we can beat.”
28. “It’s possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can’t make a good movie from a bad script.”
29. “People know everything about everybody now.”
30. “I don’t believe in happy endings but I believe in happy journeys.”
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