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My wife and I had been to the genetic counselor; my wife is not Jewish - she's the shiksha goddess type - and was negative for everything. But I was positive. I carried the gene for three genetic disorders, which, if she had been positive for, we would have passed down to the child.

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At a certain point, you have to kind of realize that greatness is a messy thing.

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The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we've all been there.

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Melodrama is one of the most stunning art forms. These are stories where the emotions are big, and the situations are big, and the artists believe in the situation dramatically. There's no irony or distance.

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My wife thinks I have an obsession with social class. So I guess I have an obsession with social class. It probably stems from feeling like an outcast.

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I think true economic class unhappiness comes from when across the street someone has a new Cadillac and you can't get that.

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It's weird, because American films in the 1930s and '40s, particularly melodramas, were made for woman, from Bette Davis to Joan Crawford to Barbara Stanwyck to Katherine Hepburn, and for some reason we've taken a step backward in this sense.

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If you read about the astronauts who went to the moon - the 12 who walked on it, and the others who orbited - all suffered serious mental trauma of one kind or another.

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Unfortunately for critics and audiences alike, I have made several films, and some films with really terrific actors. And I say this at my own peril, but Marion Cotillard is the best actor I've ever worked with.

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I'm just not willing to give up on myself. If I'm going to fail, then I want to fail to the limits of my talent.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: Unknown

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