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Checkout quotes by Michael Cimino on Movies

• ‟ Making movies is controlled anarchy, chaos.

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• ‟ I'm a frustrated would-be architect who stumbled into the would-be business of making movies.

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• ‟ If you can't stop somebody from working and making movies that you hate, what's the next best thing? Destroy them personally.

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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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• ‟ 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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• ‟ 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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• ‟ 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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• ‟ '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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• ‟ I don't make movies to make a point; I make movies to tell stories about people.

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