Michael Cimino Quotes
Films are home movies of your past.
I don`t make movies intellectually, I don`t make movies to make a point, I make movies to tell stories about people.
When asked by "People" magazine, Nov. 11, 1996 issue, how the disaster of Heaven`s Gate (1980) affected his life: "It was really a great trauma, as everyone knows. Since then, I`ve been unable to make any movie that I`ve wanted to make. I`ve been making the best of what is available."
If you don`t get it right, what`s the point?
They`ve been running Deer Hunter like crazy on Bravo. And here is the whole goddamned Congress singing `God Bless America` on the steps of the US Capitol. I said, `Holy shit, this is the ending of the movie.` (on The Deer Hunter (1978) in hindsight, post-9/11, London Independent on Sunday, July 2002)
