"I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do."
-Tommy Lee Jones
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"If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.“
-Tommy Lee Jones
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"I want to make movies about my country from my point of view."
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"All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly."
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"I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival."
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"What appeals to me? There are things, points of view, uses of the language, habits of dress, ways of thought and believing that came to me from my grandparents and came to them from theirs. Things that are of good use in any situation, no matter what the future may hold."
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"If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work."
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