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I Try To Do What I Call The Three E's - Educate, Entertain, And Enlighten. If You Don't Entertain, No One Will Show Up. But You Also Have To Educate, Because People Want To Discover Specific Things About A World Unlike Their Own - Whether It's How Hard It Is To Go To The Moon Or How Scary It Is To Be On Omaha Beach.

The Easiest Thing To Do Is To Rag On The Media, Because It Isn't Doing A Very Good Job Right Now. It Is So Much Easier To Profit From Celebrating The Worst Aspects Of Ourselves. Acting Strikes Me As The Antithesis Of That. We Can Examine The Worst Aspects Of Ourselves, But We Don't Have To Celebrate Them.

I'm Not Looking For Anything. If You Start Looking For Something Specific, Then You Take Providence Right Out Of It. You Can't Completely Control It. Otherwise You'd Make The Same Kind Of Movie Over And Over Again, Which Some People Say I've Done.

Everybody Has Something That Chews Them Up And, For Me, That Thing Was Always Loneliness. The Cinema Has The Power To Make You Not Feel Lonely, Even When You Are.

Saying No To Something Is Actually Much More Powerful Than Saying Yes.