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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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" 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. "

Michael Cimino

Politics

Survival

Political

" Because people don't see me around a lot, I'm the source of all sorts of rumour. "

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

" If you don't get it right, what's the point? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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've published a couple of short novels in France that I didn't want to publish in English because I loved the characters too much to subject them to American critics who were not exactly favorable toward my work. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Being infamous is not fun. It becomes a weird occupation in and of itself. "

" 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. "

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

" Anybody who says they're bitter is sick in their soul. They've given up. "

Michael Cimino

Anybody

Bitter

" I love to scout locations. "

" What distinguishes Vilmos Zsigmond from other cinematographers is, of course, talent but, more, physical stamina. You just can't be great without it. "

Michael Cimino

You

Without

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

" I've got a room full of scripts. They go to the ceiling. I can't even hardly walk into it anymore. Most are original, and there are some adaptations like 'Man's Fate.' "

Michael Cimino

Walk

Fate

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

" Writing, by nature, is a fairly solitary occupation. "

" I have no personal life. "

" You can't look back. "

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

" Journalism is not writing. "

Michael Cimino

Journalism

Writing

" I wish I was making movies back in the days when John Ford made movies and you were a director under contract to a studio. John Ford had years when he made three movies in a year. "

" 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. "

Michael Cimino

Everything

Said

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

" 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. "

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

" War is war. Vietnam is no different from the Crusades. "