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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. "

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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.' "

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

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

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

" '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. "

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

" Nobody lives without making mistakes. "

Making Mistakes

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

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

" There is always that need to feel that you're doing your possible best. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I have no personal life. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I wouldn't look pretty as a woman. "

" You can't look back. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Making movies is controlled anarchy, chaos. "