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

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" 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 feel very, very upset that, when it came time for me to get an Academy Award, that I didn't especially thank Clint Eastwood. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "