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

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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. "

" I don't believe in defeat. "

" Making movies is controlled anarchy, chaos. "

" Being infamous is not fun. It becomes a weird occupation in and of itself. "

" I've got a room full of scripts. They go to the ceiling. I can't even hardly walk into it anymore. Most are original, and there are some adaptations like 'Man's Fate.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Movie-making ain't for sissies. "

" I've had enough rejection for 33 years. I don't need more. "

" 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. "

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

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

" It's always a daily struggle to write. "

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

" 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. "

" On a movie, you often work fourteen-, sixteen-hour days, six days a week, for six months. It is so easy to let up because of fatigue. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" What distinguishes Vilmos Zsigmond from other cinematographers is, of course, talent but, more, physical stamina. You just can't be great without it. "

" '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. "

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

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

" You can't look back. "

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