Michael Cimino Quotes

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Nobody lives without making mistakes.

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

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

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There’s no service ribbon for people who fought in Korea. We lost over 30,000 men between 1951 and 1953 – as many as we lost in 15 years in Vietnam.

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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.

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I never second-guess myself.

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I wouldn’t have had the life I’ve had without movies.

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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.

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

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I wouldn’t look pretty as a woman.

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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.

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I felt the need to unlearn my formal education.

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

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‘Deer Hunter‘ is a movie; it is not an attempt to write history.

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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.

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Making movies is controlled anarchy, chaos.

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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.

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It’s one of the wonderful things that the Academy does – a talented person comes along like Mira Sorvino, and it elevates them up to stardom.

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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.

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

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I am not a preacher; I’m a reacher.

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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.

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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?

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

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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.

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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.

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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.’

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I don’t make movies to make a point; I make movies to tell stories about people.

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I cut ‘Deer Hunter’ myself.

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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.

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

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I love to scout locations.

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I’ve got a room full of scripts. They go to the ceiling. I can’t even hardly walk into it anymore. Most are original, and there are some adaptations like ‘Man’s Fate.’

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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.

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Writing, by nature, is a fairly solitary occupation.

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

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

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

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

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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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Journalism is not writing.

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‘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.

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

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

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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.

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