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" 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.' "

Michael Cimino

Walk

Fate

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

" 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. "

" 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 wouldn't look pretty as a woman. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" Making movies is controlled anarchy, chaos. "

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

" 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. "

" '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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

Michael Cimino

Guy

Want

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Michael Cimino

Anybody

Bitter