James Mangold
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"James Mangold" is an American film and television director, screenwriter and producer. Films he has directed include Walk the Line, which he also co-wrote, The Wolverine (film)/The Wolverine, Cop Land, Girl, Interrupted (film)/Girl, Interrupted and the 2007 remake 3:10 to Yuma (2007 film)/3:10 to Yuma. He also produced and directed pilots for the television series Men in Trees (which ran from 2006 to 2008) NYC 22 (2011-2012) and Vegas (TV series)/Vegas (2012-2013).

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Can't you just hire someone who sounds good?'

He was much more concerned about protecting others than himself. The thing he would always say to me was, `I don't care if I look bad. Just don't make other, innocent people look bad, because they were my mistakes.'

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.'Ç.

I had the advantage of making a movie about a man who was an artist himself, and an artist of the shadows, in the sense that he understood life's lonelinesses and life's mistakes, and that people make them. In that sense, he wasn't interested in hiding them.

I remember being real concerned about the music and singing -- that's something we were both concerned about -- and Jim said if people want to hear Johnny Cash, they can get a Johnny Cash record, he's made a few.

I didn't want to make a movie about what we already know.