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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" A film maker's energy and creativity don't have to end when he turns over his film. "

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

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

" I cut 'Deer Hunter' myself. "

" 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. "

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

" I never second-guess myself. "

" 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. "

" All of those years, I felt like 'Heaven's Gate' was a beautiful, fantastically colored balloon tied to a string fastened to my wrist, so the balloon could never fly. "

" 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. "

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

" Nobody lives without making mistakes. "

Making Mistakes

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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