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There's a constant dialogue going back and forth between the filmmakers and the producers.
Peter Landesman
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I had a very strong background in journalism, so it's my instinct to try to be as fair and accurate as possible.
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When a director is also a writer, everyone on the production looks to him, knowing he gave birth to the idea. There's a different level of viability.
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Once you turn on the camera, making a movie is making a movie. I don't care if it's $9 million dollars or $50 million dollars. You have bigger toys, bigger set, actors who are better paid, but once you turn on the camera, it's director and performance, and I don't find a big difference.
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You have to find the movie in the editing room, and it can't be four hours; it has to be two hours.
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My personal sources in the intelligence community and the military are very good. They're excellent. I have very high-up, in-depth sources.
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When you're researching something for a movie, you get a very different kind of reaction than when you're researching something for an article for 'The New York Times.'
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My politics are very centrist and sometimes, especially when it comes to foreign affairs, lean to the right.
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Most editors are just worried about their jobs. They're overwhelmed. They're underpaid. They do the best they can.
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I was a painter before I was a writer, so I was always a visual artist. And my writing, to me, was always visual.
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I started writing screenplays myself and eventually directing.
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Documentaries for me always felt kind of limiting. I wanted to go bigger. And I also love actors, and I love performance. So feature filmmaking was always the intent.
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