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But Look, I Was Born In 1956, The Peak Year For Births In Us History. I Think I'm Very Representative Of Many Of The Thought Processes My Generation Have Been Through And, By And Large, People Of My Age Have Had Their Imprint Planted On The Consciousness Of Western Society For A Long Time.

The Filmmakers Aren't Running The Studios Anymore. Sometimes People Who Like Films Are Making Them, But By And Large, They Have To Go Report Quarterly Earnings And All That Stuff. The Competition Is So Huge That It's Very Hard To Get People To Show Up To See Any Movie In The Theater, Much Less An Original One That Isn't A Version Of Something Else They Saw.

I Try To Do What I Call The Three E's - Educate, Entertain, And Enlighten. If You Don't Entertain, No One Will Show Up. But You Also Have To Educate, Because People Want To Discover Specific Things About A World Unlike Their Own - Whether It's How Hard It Is To Go To The Moon Or How Scary It Is To Be On Omaha Beach.

That's What's Nice About Directing A Film And Having It Done: There's Nothing More I Can Do About It. It's Done. That's It. All I Can Do Is Let It Go And Hope That People Are Kind To It.

My Doctor Said, 'if You Can Weigh What You Weighed In High School, You'll Essentially Be Healthy And Not Have Type 2 Diabetes.' Well, I'm Gonna Have Type 2 Diabetes, Because There Is No Way I Can Weigh As Much As I Did In High School.