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" 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. "

Michael Cimino

Spirit

You

Believe

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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. "

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

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Bitter

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

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" 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. "

" Making movies is controlled anarchy, chaos. "

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

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Need

Rejection

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" When a guy is perceived as macho, female editors aren't going to like it - because they all want to be men. "

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Guy

Want

" I am not a preacher; I'm a reacher. "

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I Am

Preacher

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

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

" 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

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

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

" 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'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. "

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

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

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