The one aspect I do love about digital is I love to push performance and I love to roll and roll and keep doing takes in a single performance.
James MangoldThere's a level of immersion that is perfect and there's a level that, for my taste, starts to actually exceed what the screen can provide. At that point, you're kind of overexceeding yourself.
James MangoldMovies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.
James MangoldThe funny thing about me is I move from genre to genre, but I essentially shoot all the movies the same way.
James MangoldWe should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.
James MangoldAs for the Folsom Prison show, ... would anybody have the guts to do that show now 50 Cent, maybe I think the whole idea of even playing to a crowd of people like that is so politically unfavorable now - it's like, 'What are you doing, singing for these people Do they deserve it' There's such anger in our culture right now, that kind of grace and forgiveness, we don't see that very often.
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