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I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.

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I just want to make movies. I really love movies. I want to be involved with them.

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I love the way L A. leaves you alone. I can go home, read all day, and nobody bugs me.

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I think every movie changes me and is life changing, especially movies you direct.

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Boys are easy. I mean, there are just a lot of bruises when they're young. With boys, you get a lot of accidental jabs in the eye and stepping on your feet, and those tantrums they cause when they don't want to leave the toy store.

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I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.

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I don't direct so that I can have an identity and so I can go on to CGI movies. I had a big identity as an actor, and that's not what I'm looking for from directing. Directing is a whole different goal.

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Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

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I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

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I'm really not a clothes person. To me, that's just work. It's the thing I hate to do the most. I don't want to be judged in that way.

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But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.

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My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant.

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All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.

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I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.

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There are conscious reasons and unconscious reasons why I pick something. You know, I have to be moved by the story and usually that means it has to touch me in some kind of personal place.

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'Silence Of The Lambs' was not something people expected me to do.

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Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

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I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.

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Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead.

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I don't see anyone walking around with a puppet on his hand in real life. Puppet therapy is very common for children. It's not something that adults take on.

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