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" A film maker's energy and creativity don't have to end when he turns over his film. "
Film
Creativity
Energy
" A film reflects who you are as a building reflects the soul of its architect. I think what you feel and what you think and what you are is what the film is. It's not for me to talk about. "
Think
Building
Feel
" All of those years, I felt like 'Heaven's Gate' was a beautiful, fantastically colored balloon tied to a string fastened to my wrist, so the balloon could never fly. "
Beautiful
Balloon
Never
" All one has to do is look at old footage of the firebombing of Dresden during World War II and think of the people beneath those bombs. It's horrific. "
Look
World
War
" Anybody who says they're bitter is sick in their soul. They've given up. "
Up
Anybody
Bitter
" Because people don't see me around a lot, I'm the source of all sorts of rumour. "
Source
See
People
" Being infamous is not fun. It becomes a weird occupation in and of itself. "
Weird
Being
Fun
" Does anyone remember who shot Kubrick's movies? Do you remember who shot David Lean's movies? No one remembers who shot 'Dr. Strangelove' or 'Barry Lyndon.' "
Movies
Who
You
" Encountering a real place enhances the performances of actors in subtle ways and changes the spiritual texture of the film. "
Changes
Film
Spiritual
" Even the details of a rifle, which are nothing but mechanical, if they are made carefully, with attention, become beautiful, satisfying. "
Nothing
Details
Attention
" Every good war film, if you want to use that phrase - I don't think it's a good phrase, but if you want to use that phrase - every good film, a first-rate film about war, is an anti-war movie. "
Film
You
Want
" Every great movie is about the people, even if it's a great popular success like 'Gone With the Wind.' It's really not about the Civil War. It's about Scarlett and Rhett. That's who you go to see. You're not going to root for the North or pull for the South, or, you know, it's the people you remember. "
Great
Know
Success
" Family politics are worse than world politics. That's all I can say. You don't get to choose your family; you get to choose your friends. Your family is imposed upon you. "
Politics
World
You
" Friendship and sentiment and the giving of one's words are very important. "
Friendship
Important
Words
" Hollywood has always been crazy. It's controlled anarchy. But how can you loathe something that has given you so much? "
Anarchy
Always
Crazy
" I am not a preacher; I'm a reacher. "
Am
I Am
Preacher
" I cut 'Deer Hunter' myself. "
Myself
Cut
Deer
" I don't believe in defeat. "
Defeat
Believe
" I don't dispute the accounts of My Lai 4, but I think that anyone who is a student of the war, or anyone who was there, would agree that anything you could imagine happening probably happened. "
War
Think
Student
" I don't make movies to make a point; I make movies to tell stories about people. "
Stories
Point
People
" I feel very, very upset that, when it came time for me to get an Academy Award, that I didn't especially thank Clint Eastwood. "
Award
Time
Upset
" I felt the need to unlearn my formal education. "
Education
Formal
Need
" If you can't stop somebody from working and making movies that you hate, what's the next best thing? Destroy them personally. "
You
Best
Hate
" If you don't get it right, what's the point? "
Get
You
Point
" I have a very simple definition of a good movie: a good movie makes you forget you're watching a movie. "
Good Movie
Forget
Good
" I have no interest in making a 'Vietnam' film, no interest in making a direct political statement. "
Vietnam
Political
Film
" I have no personal life. "
Personal Life
Life
Personal
" I love to scout locations. "
Locations
I Love
Scout
" I'm a frustrated would-be architect who stumbled into the would-be business of making movies. "
Business
Architect
Who
" I never second-guess myself. "
Myself
Never
Second-Guess
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