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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 cut 'Deer Hunter' myself. "

" You can't look back. "

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

" 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. "

" 'Leaving Las Vegas' is a relationship; 'Dead Man Walking' is a relationship, and they're very contained movies. They're compressed and not in wide open spaces all over the place. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Does anyone remember who shot Kubrick's movies? Do you remember who shot David Lean's movies? No one remembers who shot 'Dr. Strangelove' or 'Barry Lyndon.' "

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

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

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

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

" What we forget is that the Academy is a star-maker, or it reinforces the stardom of people. "

" I have no personal life. "

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

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

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

" If you can't stop somebody from working and making movies that you hate, what's the next best thing? Destroy them personally. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Making movies is controlled anarchy, chaos. "

" Nobody lives without making mistakes. "

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