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" 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. "

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

Michael Cimino

Anarchy

Always

Crazy

" 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. "

" There have been so many false things written about me by people who don't know me. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" You couldn't make 'Heaven's Gate' today. Even were you to quadruple the resources to make the movie, you couldn't make it because the people don't exist. "

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

Michael Cimino

Anybody

Bitter

" 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. "

Michael Cimino

Dig

Past

" I never second-guess myself. "

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

" 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. "

" Working-class, blue-collar guys who volunteered for Vietnam were ascribed certain political beliefs. It's time that this was redressed. It had nothing to do with politics. Once these men got to Vietnam, it was a matter of survival. "

" You can't look back. "

" It's silly - you go to a plastic chapel in Vegas, you get married in 10 minutes, and it takes you 10 years to get divorced. "

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

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

" I have no personal life. "

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

" I'm a frustrated would-be architect who stumbled into the would-be business of making movies. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Journalism is not writing. "

Michael Cimino

Journalism

Writing

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

" I love to scout locations. "

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