33 Peter Landesman Quotes for You to Enjoy

Peter Landesman

American Director

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What I learned is that there are indeed some stories that are too true to tell, too revealing for the general population to metabolize. And too challenging to your reporter colleagues, whose turf or toes you might have tread upon. Peter Landesman

I was doing an investigative article on arms trafficking that was taking me through Eastern Europe and the Middle East. And after I had interviewed a helicopter pilot who had been ferrying weapons into Liberia, I realized as I left the restaurant that I was being followed and set up for an ambush. Peter Landesman

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Modern art, in particular, seems especially vulnerable to fraud. Its abstractions are sometimes difficult to understand or grasp, and a modern painting is often loved less because of its intrinsic quality - its beauty, as conventionally understood - than because of the identity of the painter, its mark of social status. Peter Landesman

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I did nothing at the behest of the NFL, for the NFL, against the NFL. Peter Landesman

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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. Peter Landesman

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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. Peter Landesman

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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.' Peter Landesman

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Most editors are just worried about their jobs. They're overwhelmed. They're underpaid. They do the best they can. Peter Landesman

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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. Peter Landesman

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I started writing screenplays myself and eventually directing. Peter Landesman

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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. Peter Landesman

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Will Smith is the most successful money-making movie star on planet Earth, in terms of just how many people have gone to see his films, so Will is a guy who gets movies made. Peter Landesman

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To me, film is the most complete method of storytelling. Peter Landesman

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Film brings together framing and light and color and performance and music and all of that. To me, everything I've done in my life has been preparing me for filmmaking. Peter Landesman

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I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it's a beautiful game in many respects, one that allows you to follow a player from boyhood through manhood. Peter Landesman

Tom Hanks comes with a lot of credibility. Peter Landesman

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It's very dangerous for a storyteller to walk into a situation with a political agenda because you end up telling a story about issues instead of telling a story about people. Peter Landesman

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Life only has narrative when we frame it and edit it and call it certain things. Peter Landesman

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Melted down, silver is worth a little more than four dollars an ounce. But carved, inlaid, and engraved, and identified with a particular year, it becomes the direct reflection, often the literal record, of human history, our movement through time. Peter Landesman

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