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" 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. "

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" Even the details of a rifle, which are nothing but mechanical, if they are made carefully, with attention, become beautiful, satisfying. "

Michael Cimino

Nothing

Details

Attention

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Movie-making ain't for sissies. "

Michael Cimino

Sissies

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

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

" Journalism is not writing. "

Michael Cimino

Journalism

Writing

" '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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

Michael Cimino

Walk

Fate

" 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.' "

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

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

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

" Making movies is controlled anarchy, chaos. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I think 'American Sniper' is anti-war. It demonstrates the agony of the decision-making that goes on. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 look pretty as a woman. "