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

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

" 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. "

" I have no personal life. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I never second-guess myself. "

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

" I love to scout locations. "

" When the rich kids got together, the most we ever did was cross against a red light. "