American - Director | February 3, 1939 - July 2, 2016
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.
Michael Cimino
SillyVegasYouGoYearsPlastic
When a guy is perceived as macho, female editors aren't going to like it - because they all want to be men.
MenWantGuyGoingBecauseLike
Family politics are worse than world politics. That's all I can say. You don't get to choose your family; you get to choose your friends. Your family is imposed upon you.
FamilyPoliticsWorldFriendsChoose
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.
ServiceMenPeopleLostOverYears
Hollywood has always been crazy. It's controlled anarchy. But how can you loathe something that has given you so much?
CrazyYouHollywoodAlwaysAnarchy
I wouldn't have had the life I've had without movies.
LifeMoviesWithoutHad
Anybody who says they're bitter is sick in their soul. They've given up.
SoulSickUpBitterWhoAnybody
There's nothing but brutality and bravery or cowardice that comes out of war. That's pretty much it.
WarNothingOutPrettyBraveryMuch
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.
GreatPeopleIdeasMoviesNever
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.
SuccessGreatWarPeopleWindYou
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.
GoodWarThinkYouWantFilm
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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