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As the people of Shishmaref lose their natural hunting grounds to the warming sea, they are forced to buy U.S. canned goods from the only local store on the island; however, this is not their natural diet and cannot sustain them throughout the year. Amy J. Berg

I don't think human beings have changed in 2,000 years. Andrew Dominik

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Sometimes you see a movie and you can really feel that it's an actor putting in a performance. Someone said 'cut' and they're back in their trailer having a coffee or getting their hair done. Andrew Dominik

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A lot of writing's going down dead ends that don't go anywhere. Andrew Dominik

Writing Down Dead Go Lot Going Ends Anywhere

Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesn't have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants. Andrew Dominik

Organization Power Criminal He Obviously Just Anyone Wants Persuade Player

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process. Andrew Dominik

Best Everybody Make Always Trying Movie Process

Anything that's memorable about a movie is often what a test audience will object to because they're being asked to be experts. They just compare the film they finished watching to all of the other films that they've seen. Andrew Dominik

I really believed Obama when he spoke in 2008, but I remember watching his victory speech after this last election and it was the same speech. Exactly the same speech. I felt like he didn't even believe it anymore. He seemed to be tired of saying the same thing. Andrew Dominik

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Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world. Andrew Dominik

Confused World Become Masculine Ideals Very Modern Modern World

I'm not a very efficient filmmaker. There's a lot of guys, filmmakers like the Coen Brothers who shoot a whole movie and maybe don't use 12 setups. I'm in awe of people like that; I'm just not that guy. Andrew Dominik

People Brothers Guy Guys Like Lot Very Efficient Shoot Maybe Just Movie Use Who Whole Coen Awe Filmmaker Filmmakers

For me, the movie's always evolving as I'm doing it. I throw things in as we shoot, and I take things out as we go. I want to create a whole life and then select the pieces that best sort of describe it later, you know? So there's a lot of wastage when I make a film. Andrew Dominik

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Actors have either got to play something that's close to them, or something that's the complete opposite. Andrew Dominik

Complete Complete Opposite Something Got Opposite Close Either Them Actor Play

I read books all the time. I'm just half looking for something to do; I mostly just read for pleasure. Occasionally I stumble across something that could be a movie, but I don't put a book down just because I don't see a movie in it, either. Andrew Dominik

There's been about 75 movies about Jesse James, and I've seen about four of them. He's usually portrayed as this plucky rebel who's got no choice but to turn to crime, because the railway's hassling his mother. But he wasn't like that. Andrew Dominik

We can all understand that feeling of being alone in the world trying to find ways to not be alone. Andrew Haigh

Alone World Feeling Ways Find Understand Trying Being Being Alone

It fails everybody, pretty much, the American Dream, but people are driven by it. I don't think we're driven by the same sense of hope in Europe. We're driven by pessimism more. Andrew Haigh

Hope People Sense Think Everybody Dream Pretty More Driven Fails American Same American Dream Much Pessimism Europe

My straight friends accept I'm gay but they forget that some people don't. Even now, if I go into a party, people don't usually assume I'm gay, so you have to keep coming out. And if you say you've got a film with a gay subject matter, you can sometimes see people's eyes going, 'Oh! OK!' Andrew Haigh

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You can achieve one thing, but because of that, you have to adapt or lose something else. If you end up in a relationship, you sometimes have to lose the closeness of your friendships, for example, or you have to move away somewhere... For me, that creates the sense of melancholy which I think exists in most people's lives. Andrew Haigh

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