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"I knew that one day I would come to this point that I would make something so outrageous and so ambitious that... it'd be that Don Quixote feeling, that I'd have to tilt at a windmill. Sometimes you've got to do it. That's the only way you can do things."
"One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that."
"A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know."
"Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major."
"I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future."
"I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience."
"Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that."
"When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process."
"Football is mesmerizing, because it's a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as a team, not as an individual. Players bond whether they're black or white, much as soldiers do."
"Hell is the impossibility of reason."
"Everyone in the world is impacted by the United States' Big Brother attitude toward the world. We need countries to say no to the United States. The United States is the dominant power in the universe, with its eavesdropping abilities, cyber abilities. And the world is in danger with our tyranny."
"I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast."
"If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me."
"I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it."
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works."
"I think our life is a series of adventures."
"Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind."
"I think you can maintain two tracks. I think you have to. That's what this kind of filmmaking is about. If you're not aware of the limitations of what you're up against... it's like a general: you have to know your artillery and you have to know your infantry. You have to know what you have. You have to marshal your forces and use them well. It comes down to the personal and the intimate, but at the same time you have to have the big picture."
"Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies."
"The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror."