You can't look back.
It's always a daily struggle to write.
Writing, by nature, is a fairly solitary occupation.
Making movies is controlled anarchy, chaos.
It's one of the things that movies do offer you, despite all of their hardships - they offer you moments of transcendence.
I don't make movies to make a point; I make movies to tell stories about people.
It was just - I mean, 6,000 people giving you a standing ovation is quite an experience.
I think 'American Sniper' is anti-war. It demonstrates the agony of the decision-making that goes on.
I cut 'Deer Hunter' myself.
Most people I knew had been crippled by their educations. Some were even dying spiritually.
'Deer Hunter' is a movie; it is not an attempt to write history.
I have no personal life.
I love to scout locations.
Journalism is not writing.
I never second-guess myself.
On a movie, you often work fourteen-, sixteen-hour days, six days a week, for six months. It is so easy to let up because of fatigue.
Being infamous is not fun. It becomes a weird occupation in and of itself.
I felt the need to unlearn my formal education.
Friendship and sentiment and the giving of one's words are very important.
I wouldn't look pretty as a woman.
There's a need to dig up the past and analyze it.
War is war. Vietnam is no different from the Crusades.
Who cares about seeing 10,000 helicopter assaults? That's spectacle.
When the rich kids got together, the most we ever did was cross against a red light.
I've had enough rejection for 33 years. I don't need more.
