I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.
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For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would.
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And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.
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On the one hand, the businessman in me understands it. But the lover of movies in me wants desperately to hang on to the movie house as a collective experience with the audience.
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You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.
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