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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" You can't look back. "

" 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. "

" There's nothing but brutality and bravery or cowardice that comes out of war. That's pretty much it. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Nobody lives without making mistakes. "

Making Mistakes

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" Encountering a real place enhances the performances of actors in subtle ways and changes the spiritual texture of the film. "

" '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 cut 'Deer Hunter' myself. "

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

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

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

" I think 'American Sniper' is anti-war. It demonstrates the agony of the decision-making that goes on. "

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

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

" I wouldn't look pretty as a woman. "

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

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

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

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