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

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" Nobody lives without making mistakes. "

Making Mistakes

" There's nothing good that comes out of war. It's simply hell on earth, and people survive, and people don't. "

" I cut 'Deer Hunter' myself. "

" When a guy is perceived as macho, female editors aren't going to like it - because they all want to be men. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" '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. "

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

" A film maker's energy and creativity don't have to end when he turns over his film. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I never second-guess myself. "

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

" 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 believe in defeat. "

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

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

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

" Writing, by nature, is a fairly solitary occupation. "

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

" 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. "