Peter Landesman

“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.”

“As a journalist, as a screenwriter and as a director, I'm trying to tell compelling and truthful stories.”

“I did nothing at the behest of the NFL, for the NFL, against the NFL.”

“I was a painter, then a novelist, then a journalist, then a screenwriter, and now I'm a director, and it feels all part of the same continuum. One led to the other, and it just feels like the natural confluence of all the ways of storytelling that I've been doing for almost 30 years.”

“I can't worry about the consequences of what I do; that's not my job.”

“Sony is the only studio without broadcast relationships with the NFL.”

“I love the game. I love to watch. I watch it with my kids. I'm able to divorce the beauty of the athletics from the corporate entity that is the National Football League.”

“We've all seen 'Network' and 'Wag the Dog,' but we were somehow insulated by the fact that those were just movies, fictions, and we could rest easy that the Real News doesn't operate that way. Well, it does - sometimes.”

“You have to find the movie in the editing room, and it can't be four hours; it has to be two hours.”

“I was a war correspondent. I've watched great people crumble under pressure and make bad decisions.”

“I consider myself neither liberal nor conservative when it comes to foreign policy.”

“I started writing screenplays myself and eventually directing.”

“I was a painter before I was a writer, so I was always a visual artist. And my writing, to me, was always visual.”

“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.”

“Each year, tens of millions of museumgoers walk through the entrance of the Getty, or the Metropolitan or the Prado or the Hermitage, and never consider the possibility of having to arbitrate for themselves the authenticity of what they have come to see.”

“I'd followed the strange deaths of pro football players for years, sensing something odd going on.”

“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.”

“There will always been the prurient rubbernecking aspect to disasters: people who just can't get enough gore.”

“Hard information on the quantity of bogus art sold is difficult to come by, in part because fraud, when discovered by dealers and auction houses, is usually kept secret to boost public confidence in the art market.”

“I always spend a good deal of time with the people I write about. I try and smell the normalcy of their lives. I try to look at the normal rhythm of their life.”