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I think I'm a very American director, but I probably should have been making movies somewhere around 1976. I never left the mainstream of American movies; the American mainstream left me.

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I continually marvel at people who can make films that reach five hundred million people. How do you do that? Everybody's different - I don't know how that works.

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I know this sounds phony, but I don't start out on a project going, 'I'm going to make an emotional work,' you know what I mean? You try to tell the story directly and honestly and with passion.

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What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and the character, and the character and the audience.

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I went to see 'Star Trek Into Darkness,' and J.J. Abrams, who's a friend of mine, made this film, and I went to see it at the premiere. Believe it or not, I was really blown away by the comic timing of it.

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The idea that the family is this locus of support but can also hold you back and keep you down makes for good drama.

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There's never really been a tradition of making films about Jewish themes or using Judaism as a constant.

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I suppose I'm always trying to break down the wall between my characters and myself. I'm trying to make the film as expressive and personal as I can, even if I can't explain, for example, how important it is for me to be Jewish.

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The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

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The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: Unknown

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