American - Director | February 3, 1939 - July 2, 2016
I have a very simple definition of a good movie: a good movie makes you forget you're watching a movie.
Michael Cimino
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All of those years, I felt like 'Heaven's Gate' was a beautiful, fantastically colored balloon tied to a string fastened to my wrist, so the balloon could never fly.
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War is war. Vietnam is no different from the Crusades.
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There's a need to dig up the past and analyze it.
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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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I've had enough rejection for 33 years. I don't need more.
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Nobody lives without making mistakes.
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I cut 'Deer Hunter' myself.
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Even the details of a rifle, which are nothing but mechanical, if they are made carefully, with attention, become beautiful, satisfying.
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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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I never second-guess myself.
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Journalism is not writing.
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