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

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

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

" Movie-making ain't for sissies. "

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

" 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.' "

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

" 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 felt the need to unlearn my formal education. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've had enough rejection for 33 years. I don't need more. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" '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. "