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" Making movies is controlled anarchy, chaos. "

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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.' "

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

" If you can't stop somebody from working and making movies that you hate, what's the next best thing? Destroy them personally. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't make movies to make a point; I make movies to tell stories about people. "

" I never second-guess myself. "

" Journalism is not writing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" '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. "

" 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. "

" War is war. Vietnam is no different from the Crusades. "

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

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

" You can't look back. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Nobody lives without making mistakes. "

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