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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" Movie-making ain't for sissies. "

" 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. "

" Does anyone remember who shot Kubrick's movies? Do you remember who shot David Lean's movies? No one remembers who shot 'Dr. Strangelove' or 'Barry Lyndon.' "

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

" I love to scout locations. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" We all want to experience that in our lives - a moment when we're two feet off the ground - and making movies gives you that opportunity. It comes and it goes so fast that it's unreal, but it does happen. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

" Working-class, blue-collar guys who volunteered for Vietnam were ascribed certain political beliefs. It's time that this was redressed. It had nothing to do with politics. Once these men got to Vietnam, it was a matter of survival. "

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

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

" Nobody lives without making mistakes. "

Making Mistakes

" I never second-guess myself. "

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