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" I have no personal life. "

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" 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. "

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

" Nobody lives without making mistakes. "

Making Mistakes

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Making movies is controlled anarchy, chaos. "

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

" Friendship and sentiment and the giving of one's words are very important. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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