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I have a very simple definition of a good movie: a good movie makes you forget you're watching a movie.

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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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The Indians believe all things have spirit - even the hail that comes from the sky is spirit. If you believe that, which I implicitly do, everything is alive.

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All of those years, I felt like 'Heaven's Gate' was a beautiful, fantastically colored balloon tied to a string fastened to my wrist, so the balloon could never fly.

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Even the details of a rifle, which are nothing but mechanical, if they are made carefully, with attention, become beautiful, satisfying.

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War is war. Vietnam is no different from the Crusades.

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I cut 'Deer Hunter' myself.

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Nobody lives without making mistakes.

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I was a child prodigy. Like Michelangelo, who could draw a perfect circle at age five. I was extremely gifted. I could paint a perfect portrait of someone at age five.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: February 3rd, 1939

Died: July 2nd, 2016

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