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" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" I never second-guess myself. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 cut 'Deer Hunter' myself. "

" 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. "

" Nobody lives without making mistakes. "

Making Mistakes

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "