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" I cut 'Deer Hunter' myself. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Nobody lives without making mistakes. "

Making Mistakes

" I have no personal life. "

" 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. "

" It's always a daily struggle to write. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I have no interest in making a 'Vietnam' film, no interest in making a direct political statement. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I am not a preacher; I'm a reacher. "

" 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.' "

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

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

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

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

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

" I never second-guess myself. "

" I love to scout locations. "

" 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. "