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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.
— Michael Cimino
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I'm a frustrated would-be architect who stumbled into the would-be business of making movies.
— Michael Cimino
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Family politics are worse than world politics. That's all I can say. You don't get to choose your family; you get to choose your friends. Your family is imposed upon you.
— Michael Cimino
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I felt the need to unlearn my formal education.
— Michael Cimino
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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.
— Michael Cimino
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Movie-making ain't for sissies.
— Michael Cimino
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