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I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and keep the artistic integrity of your work intact, but they don't make it very easy to live your life.

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Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

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Yeah, I think that's it... It's like Jesse James. He became really popular because he lasted so long. You know, there is some degree of truth to the fact that time will dignify anything, too.

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You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for - are now looked at as classics.

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A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.

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I've always been able to survive by writing, though.

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You never know when you're going to be considered un-hip... The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.

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Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

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Everybody's a filmmaker today.

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Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: April 11th, 1944

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