American - Director | February 3, 1939 - July 2, 2016
What distinguishes Vilmos Zsigmond from other cinematographers is, of course, talent but, more, physical stamina. You just can't be great without it.
Michael Cimino
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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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'Deer Hunter' is a movie; it is not an attempt to write history.
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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.
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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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Being infamous is not fun. It becomes a weird occupation in and of itself.
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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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What we forget is that the Academy is a star-maker, or it reinforces the stardom of people.
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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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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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Most people I knew had been crippled by their educations. Some were even dying spiritually.
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I felt the need to unlearn my formal education.
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