79 Quotes by Michael Cimino

When the rich kids got together, the most we ever did was cross against a red light.

'Deer Hunter' is a movie; it is not an attempt to write history.

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.

Encountering a real place enhances the performances of actors in subtle ways and changes the spiritual texture of the film.

I feel very, very upset that, when it came time for me to get an Academy Award, that I didn't especially thank Clint Eastwood.

It's always a daily struggle to write.

Would you ask Picasso to explain 'Guernica?' Would you ask Nabokov to explain 'Lolita?' Would you ask Tolstoy about 'War and Peace?' No, you wouldn't dare.

Writing, by nature, is a fairly solitary occupation.

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.