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

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" Encountering a real place enhances the performances of actors in subtle ways and changes the spiritual texture of the film. "

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

" 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. "

" There's nothing but brutality and bravery or cowardice that comes out of war. That's pretty much it. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I love to scout locations. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" Nobody lives without making mistakes. "

Making Mistakes

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Making movies is controlled anarchy, chaos. "