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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Journalism is not writing. "

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

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

" 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'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. "

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

" 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. "

" Who cares about seeing 10,000 helicopter assaults? That's spectacle. "

" Nobody lives without making mistakes. "

Making Mistakes

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I felt the need to unlearn my formal education. "

" I never second-guess myself. "

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

" If you don't get it right, what's the point? "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "