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" It's one of the things that movies do offer you, despite all of their hardships - they offer you moments of transcendence. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Even the details of a rifle, which are nothing but mechanical, if they are made carefully, with attention, become beautiful, satisfying. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Journalism is not writing. "

" A film reflects who you are as a building reflects the soul of its architect. I think what you feel and what you think and what you are is what the film is. It's not for me to talk about. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't believe in defeat. "

" You can't look back. "

" I love to scout locations. "

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

" 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. "