Quotes from James Mangold

when one finds oneself participating in an endeavor entirely without merit, one withdraws.

If you respect the events and respect the real life tragedy, you can drive your film to address it in some mature way.

The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.

One of my favourite movies is Billy Wilder's 'The Apartment.' It's shot in super wide screen, and it's beautiful.

The idea of devoting two years of my life to making a corporate product that looks and smells and tastes like a lot of other things out there with just a different trademark character is a bore.

Filmmakers get into trouble when they're watching too many DVDs and quoting all the time.

Having the kind of infinite loop of what a digital stream is - you can shoot for a long time without cutting - allows me to sometimes perform really exciting things.

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.

I love comic books. Since I was a kid, I've collected them.

We 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.

I'm really very lucky. I get to do an awful lot. I've been able to make an incredibly wide range of movies and work with an incredible array of people.

I'm a huge comic book collector. When I was a kid, I had both Marvel and DC. I was my own librarian. I made card files. I had origin stories of all the characters, and cross-referenced when they appeared in other comic books. I was full on.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

As 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.

I'd be really interested in making a dramatic, low key 3D film.

A fantasy film is often improved by some kind of human reality.