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

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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. "

" Nobody lives without making mistakes. "

Making Mistakes

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

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

" '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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I love to scout locations. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 things that movies do offer you, despite all of their hardships - they offer you moments of transcendence. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "