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" 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. "

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

" You can't look back. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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 am not a preacher; I'm a reacher. "

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

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

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

" I wish I was making movies back in the days when John Ford made movies and you were a director under contract to a studio. John Ford had years when he made three movies in a year. "

" I have no personal life. "

" Nobody lives without making mistakes. "

Making Mistakes

" 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'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. "

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

" '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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I wouldn't have had the life I've had without movies. "

" 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. "

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