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

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

" 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 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 personal life. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I don't believe in defeat. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" I cut 'Deer Hunter' myself. "

" I never second-guess myself. "

" Movie-making ain't for sissies. "

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

" When I was fifteen, I spent three weeks driving all over Brooklyn with a guy who was following his girlfriend. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" '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. "

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

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

" 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. "