Writing, by nature, is a fairly solitary occupation.
Movie-making ain't for sissies.
It was just - I mean, 6,000 people giving you a standing ovation is quite an experience.
I wouldn't have had the life I've had without movies.
Being infamous is not fun. It becomes a weird occupation in and of itself.
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.
Because people don't see me around a lot, I'm the source of all sorts of rumour.
It's always a daily struggle to write.
Nobody lives without making mistakes.
Anybody who says they're bitter is sick in their soul. They've given up.
If you don't get it right, what's the point?
There's no service ribbon for people who fought in Korea. We lost over 30,000 men between 1951 and 1953 - as many as we lost in 15 years in Vietnam.
I think 'American Sniper' is anti-war. It demonstrates the agony of the decision-making that goes on.
I wouldn't look pretty as a woman.
I have no interest in making a 'Vietnam' film, no interest in making a direct political statement.
Encountering a real place enhances the performances of actors in subtle ways and changes the spiritual texture of the film.
'Deer Hunter' is a movie; it is not an attempt to write history.
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.
I feel very, very upset that, when it came time for me to get an Academy Award, that I didn't especially thank Clint Eastwood.
I wish I was making movies back in the days when John Ford made movies and you were a director under contract to a studio. John Ford had years when he made three movies in a year.
