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

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

" It's very important to follow your instincts because, beyond what you know exists or what you're told exists in a given area, your intuition plays a big part in finding something special. "

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

" 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. "

" There is always that need to feel that you're doing your possible best. "

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

" Journalism is not writing. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

" All one has to do is look at old footage of the firebombing of Dresden during World War II and think of the people beneath those bombs. It's horrific. "

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

" It was just - I mean, 6,000 people giving you a standing ovation is quite an experience. "

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

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

" Movie-making ain't for sissies. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" You can't look back. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I've got a room full of scripts. They go to the ceiling. I can't even hardly walk into it anymore. Most are original, and there are some adaptations like 'Man's Fate.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "