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" A film maker's energy and creativity don't have to end when he turns over his film. "
Michael Cimino
Film
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" I am not a preacher; I'm a reacher. "
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" I don't make movies to make a point; I make movies to tell stories about people. "
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" If you don't get it right, what's the point? "
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" I've had enough rejection for 33 years. I don't need more. "
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" What distinguishes Vilmos Zsigmond from other cinematographers is, of course, talent but, more, physical stamina. You just can't be great without it. "
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" I'm a frustrated would-be architect who stumbled into the would-be business of making movies. "
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" It's silly - you go to a plastic chapel in Vegas, you get married in 10 minutes, and it takes you 10 years to get divorced. "
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" Making movies is controlled anarchy, chaos. "
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" I wouldn't have had the life I've had without movies. "
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" If you can't stop somebody from working and making movies that you hate, what's the next best thing? Destroy them personally. "
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" I have no interest in making a 'Vietnam' film, no interest in making a direct political statement. "
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" When a guy is perceived as macho, female editors aren't going to like it - because they all want to be men. "
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" There's nothing but brutality and bravery or cowardice that comes out of war. That's pretty much it. "
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" Movies are about people; there're not about ideas. It's like great novels. Great novels are not about ideas. There's never been a great novel about ideas. "
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" War is war. Vietnam is no different from the Crusades. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Being infamous is not fun. It becomes a weird occupation in and of itself. "
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" There's no service ribbon for people who fought in Korea. We lost over 30,000 men between 1951 and 1953 - as many as we lost in 15 years in Vietnam. "
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" 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. "
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" You couldn't make 'Heaven's Gate' today. Even were you to quadruple the resources to make the movie, you couldn't make it because the people don't exist. "
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" There's a need to dig up the past and analyze it. "
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" Even the details of a rifle, which are nothing but mechanical, if they are made carefully, with attention, become beautiful, satisfying. "
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" It's one of the things that movies do offer you, despite all of their hardships - they offer you moments of transcendence. "
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" I cut 'Deer Hunter' myself. "
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" It's always a daily struggle to write. "
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" Working-class, blue-collar guys who volunteered for Vietnam were ascribed certain political beliefs. It's time that this was redressed. It had nothing to do with politics. Once these men got to Vietnam, it was a matter of survival. "
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" Anybody who says they're bitter is sick in their soul. They've given up. "
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" 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. "
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