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

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" 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. "

" I never second-guess myself. "

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

" Making movies is controlled anarchy, chaos. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Every good war film, if you want to use that phrase - I don't think it's a good phrase, but if you want to use that phrase - every good film, a first-rate film about war, is an anti-war movie. "

" Nobody lives without making mistakes. "

Making Mistakes

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

" I don't believe in defeat. "

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

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

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

" Writing, by nature, is a fairly solitary occupation. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have no personal life. "