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

I don't make movies to make a point; I make movies to tell stories about people.