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" If you don't get it right, what's the point? "
Michael Cimino
Get
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I've had enough rejection for 33 years. I don't need more. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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You
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" I have no interest in making a 'Vietnam' film, no interest in making a direct political statement. "
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" I have no personal life. "
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Life
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" 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. "
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" War is war. Vietnam is no different from the Crusades. "
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" When I was fifteen, I spent three weeks driving all over Brooklyn with a guy who was following his girlfriend. "
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" 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. "
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Wonderful
Person
" There have been so many false things written about me by people who don't know me. "
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False
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