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

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" 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. "

" Making movies is controlled anarchy, chaos. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Journalism is not writing. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Nobody lives without making mistakes. "

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