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" 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.' "

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" Encountering a real place enhances the performances of actors in subtle ways and changes the spiritual texture of the film. "

" A film maker's energy and creativity don't have to end when he turns over his film. "

" I think 'American Sniper' is anti-war. It demonstrates the agony of the decision-making that goes on. "

" I wouldn't have had the life I've had without movies. "

" Making movies is controlled anarchy, chaos. "

" I felt the need to unlearn my formal education. "

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

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

" I've had enough rejection for 33 years. I don't need more. "

" 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. "

" I don't believe in defeat. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have no personal life. "

" It was just - I mean, 6,000 people giving you a standing ovation is quite an experience. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" When a guy is perceived as macho, female editors aren't going to like it - because they all want to be men. "

" There have been so many false things written about me by people who don't know me. "

" Even the details of a rifle, which are nothing but mechanical, if they are made carefully, with attention, become beautiful, satisfying. "

" If you can't stop somebody from working and making movies that you hate, what's the next best thing? Destroy them personally. "

" I cut 'Deer Hunter' myself. "

" Most people I knew had been crippled by their educations. Some were even dying spiritually. "

" 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. "

" There is always that need to feel that you're doing your possible best. "

" You can't look back. "

" I wouldn't look pretty as a woman. "