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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" There's a need to dig up the past and analyze it. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Nobody lives without making mistakes. "

Making Mistakes

" A film reflects who you are as a building reflects the soul of its architect. I think what you feel and what you think and what you are is what the film is. It's not for me to talk about. "

" '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 cut 'Deer Hunter' myself. "

" I never second-guess myself. "

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

" 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. "

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