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" 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. "

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

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

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" I don't believe in defeat. "

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" Movies are about people; there're not about ideas. It's like great novels. Great novels are not about ideas. There's never been a great novel about ideas. "

" 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. "

" 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 have no interest in making a 'Vietnam' film, no interest in making a direct political statement. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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" You can't look back. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I have no personal life. "

" Making movies is controlled anarchy, chaos. "

" I love to scout locations. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "