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" 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. "

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" It's very important to follow your instincts because, beyond what you know exists or what you're told exists in a given area, your intuition plays a big part in finding something special. "

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" I was a child prodigy. Like Michelangelo, who could draw a perfect circle at age five. I was extremely gifted. I could paint a perfect portrait of someone at age five. "

" They've said everything about me that they could: racist, Marxist, rightist, homophobic, sex change - I don't know what else they could come up with. "

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" I don't make movies to make a point; I make movies to tell stories about people. "

" Nobody lives without making mistakes. "

" What we forget is that the Academy is a star-maker, or it reinforces the stardom of people. "

" I have a very simple definition of a good movie: a good movie makes you forget you're watching a movie. "

" The Indians believe all things have spirit - even the hail that comes from the sky is spirit. If you believe that, which I implicitly do, everything is alive. "

" 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. "

" It's one of the wonderful things that the Academy does - a talented person comes along like Mira Sorvino, and it elevates them up to stardom. "

" There's nothing but brutality and bravery or cowardice that comes out of war. That's pretty much it. "

" Journalism is not writing. "

Michael Cimino

Journalism

Writing

" 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. "

" We all want to experience that in our lives - a moment when we're two feet off the ground - and making movies gives you that opportunity. It comes and it goes so fast that it's unreal, but it does happen. "

" Who cares about seeing 10,000 helicopter assaults? That's spectacle. "

" I would never suggest that the geography or visual environment of the film is more important than what's going on with the people, but it's a major factor in getting the right tone. Certainly, it influences the actors tremendously. "

" Hollywood has always been crazy. It's controlled anarchy. But how can you loathe something that has given you so much? "

" 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. "

" Movie-making ain't for sissies. "

Michael Cimino

Sissies

" When I was fifteen, I spent three weeks driving all over Brooklyn with a guy who was following his girlfriend. "

" On a movie, you often work fourteen-, sixteen-hour days, six days a week, for six months. It is so easy to let up because of fatigue. "

" 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. "

" You can't look back. "

" Would you ask Picasso to explain 'Guernica?' Would you ask Nabokov to explain 'Lolita?' Would you ask Tolstoy about 'War and Peace?' No, you wouldn't dare. "

" I love to scout locations. "

" There's a need to dig up the past and analyze it. "

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" I have no personal life. "

" Making movies is controlled anarchy, chaos. "

" It's one of the things that movies do offer you, despite all of their hardships - they offer you moments of transcendence. "

" 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.' "