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James Mangold

Date of Birth:: December 16, 1963
Quote count:: 30
Times favorited:: 1

James Mangold is an American film director and screenwriter. He is perhaps best known for Walk the Line which he co-wrote and directed.

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James Mangold

“When I was making 'Cop Land' in 1996, people were asking what my next movie was, ... Without thinking, I said, 'I want to make a movie about Johnny Cash.'Ã‡”

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James Mangold

“That's the mythic album where you see his face, sweaty, looking dangerous, and he's there singing to murderers and robbers and sharing a good time with them. As a kid, how could you not be interested?”

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James Mangold

“John was not just a singer, but a songwriter, ... He was always riding this river of shadows in his writing. He was singing about a kind of pain everyone lives through.”

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James Mangold

“June and John are the last generation who can sing about these things first hand, ... The fact is, these people grew up in a field and they were singing about what they saw.”

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James Mangold

“There was a point when they got into enough of a groove that when they played for the extras in Memphis we felt the love,”

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James Mangold

“People don't remember how good the music was (back then)... There's some real blood and guts in that music.”

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James Mangold

“There was something really adventurous going on at that moment with young people lashing out.”

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James Mangold

“They were each an antidote for the other. John had a hole in his heart... and June was an antidote... John was a real ambassador for her to the edge or away from a safe place as part of the first family of country music. It's the most wonderful set of opposites you could ever encounter.”

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James Mangold

“[For the movie to work,] he couldn't be an enigma, ... What's inside him? What makes him him? We pushed very hard to scratch deeper, and to fill in the gaps of the stories.”

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James Mangold

“As we got to know John and June, what we needed them to understand was that the people they were now was not the people they were then, ... And there was the challenge of combining the grand wisdom and spirituality of these elder legends backwards into the young people they were, as they were learning those lessons. To tell how they got to be here, we had to go to those darker places, and not temper it.”

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