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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. "

Michael Cimino

War

Think

Student

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You

Without

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Walk

Fate

" 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. "

" I have no personal life. "

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

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

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

" Journalism is not writing. "

Michael Cimino

Journalism

Writing

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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Dig

Past

" 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

" I never second-guess myself. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Nobody lives without making mistakes. "

" I cut 'Deer Hunter' myself. "

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

Michael Cimino

Need

Rejection

" When the rich kids got together, the most we ever did was cross against a red light. "