I don't like telling people where I stand on this, although I'm surprised anybody wonders. I suppose if I say I'm pro-choice, if I make that clear, it let's the audience off the hook, then they can sort of relax.…

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But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in...

But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in...

All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a...

All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a...

When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make...

When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make...

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A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it...

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As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether...

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I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited...

People can't help how they look.

People can't help how they look.

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In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and...

Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.

Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.

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When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which...

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Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say...

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When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a...

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Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio...

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I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of...

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It is true that the movie is perhaps my most politically-charged. The story is thrust...

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I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come...

And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people,...

And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people,...

Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off...

Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off...