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Quotes by Tommy Lee Jones
- I don't direct movies for a living.
- I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do.
- I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.
- I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces.
- I want to make movies about my country from my point of view.
- 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.
- I've made some bad movies. And I really enjoyed it!
- 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.
- If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work.
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