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If You Can't Count On Your Heart Having Some Kind Of Unified Response, You Can't Count On Anything. You Use Your Heart As A Barometer For Your Movie's Completeness.

So If We Have Anything Original To Offer, It's To Speak From Our Own Life About The Society We're In.

Well, It Was Interesting Because When I Was Going To Do It The First Time In My Head Was Leonardo Dicaprio [for Chris] And Marlon Brando Was Going To Play The Character That Hal Holbrook Eventually Played. But Then When It Wasn't To Be And There Was No Promise That It Ever Would Be I Think Some Part Of Me Didn't Want To Attach Specifics To It Anymore - Actors Or Anything Else - Because I Wanted To See It Made That Much More Badly.

I Don't Read Newspapers Too Much , Just Because They Tend To Make Me Feel I Have A Political Obligation That I Think Is A Distraction From What My Political Offerings Are Going To Be If I Just Make My Movies.

There's A Lot Of Mediocrity Being Celebrated, And A Lot Of Wonderful Stuff Being Ignored Or Discouraged.