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I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I want to tell these stories and present these shapes, colors and movements as I see them, as I see them serve a narrative. As I see that narrative serve an audience. That's what I want to do. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#audience #colors #context #dramatic #i

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. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#belief #believer #causes #faith #i

In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#i #only #political #political world #position

It's no fun to be a struggling young actor. It's a desperate thing, no way to be happy. If you have any alternative, you should take it. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#alternative #any #be happy #desperate #fun

My home town is very small and very remote and we don't have a movie house. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#home town #house #movie #remote #small

My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#bound #could #creative #creative life #easily

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#directed #director #good #good director #good ideas

The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?' ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#american cinema #cinema #i #important #important question

You know, I don't really think you have to play nice guys. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. ↗

— Erica Jong

#dark #dark place #everyone #follow #leads