"I felt the need to unlearn my formal education." — Michael Cimino

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.

There's nothing good that comes out of war. It's simply hell on earth, and people survive, and people don't.

'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.

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