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I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the

I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first theyre going to love Harry Potter, or they may love The Hunger Games, but after that, theyre going to love the act of reading and wonder, What else can I read? – Gary Ross

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You cant tell your kids to read if youre just watching television. They have to see you read. And in that respect, I think its important to walk the walk. Its a wonderful shared time. – Gary Ross

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History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution. – Gary Ross

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If you look at the opening of Private Ryan, you are so in the point of view of those guys and there is a whole world swirling all around them. You are learning that geography as they are learning it. – Gary Ross

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The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour. – Laura Dern

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Ive made so many movies playing a hooker that they dont pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser. – Shirley MacLaine

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