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What you learn when you direct a film, even more so than as a producer, it's a marriage. It's like a relationship with that film so you've got to make sure that it's really something that you want to live with for three years or however long it is. So I haven't found the right thing to marry yet.
You really have to get out of an actor's head to write because actors only care about their part and it revolves around their part so "This is the important part because this is the part where ... " .
It takes a long time to get a film made.
We usually break the story first. For instance, on The Monuments Men, and this one is more complicated because there's a lot of history, so before we started, we sat down with Robert Edsel, the author of the book, for about a week, and basically, he just gave us a lecture and went through everything. And then, I had a researcher, somebody who we had actually used on Argo.
I didn't want to be 50 or 60 and auditioning for a three-line role.
There are films that cost a lot of money that might be decent films. But if they don't perform in that first weekend or two, they're gone.
You have to make films you feel strongly about. And then hope you can find the audience.
Actors know how to talk to other actors in a way that sometimes other directors just don't.
There are times when you work with directors on set, and things are a bit rudderless, and those can be good directors.
You work with great directors and terrible directors, and so you learn; you take what you think will work for you.
When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.
Creatively, it's great, because when you write your own movies, you get to create whatever you want.
I'm very superstitious.
I think it's more interesting to throw people into a story and let them catch up instead of explaining and feeling like you have to slow down for them. I think audiences, for the most part, they don't want to be ahead of you.
A lot of the art that was destroyed was painted and created by Jews. A lot of that is gone because that was degenerative art. That's what Hitler was trying to get rid of.
I find writing really difficult - definitely the most difficult of all the things I do.
Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.
When you look at a film like 'The Ides of March' or 'Good Night, and Good Luck' even, those are really contained pictures.
