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" '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. "

Michael Cimino

Man

Walking

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" I don't believe in defeat. "

Michael Cimino

Defeat

Believe

" 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'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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

" I have no personal life. "

" Nobody lives without making mistakes. "

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

Michael Cimino

Need

Rejection

" 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

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

" 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. "

" I wouldn't have had the life I've had without movies. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Michael Cimino

Everything

Said

" 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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Journalism is not writing. "

Michael Cimino

Journalism

Writing

" 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. "