I am not a preacher; I'm a reacher.
Making movies is controlled anarchy, chaos.
If you can't stop somebody from working and making movies that you hate, what's the next best thing? Destroy them personally.
I love to scout locations.
It's very important to follow your instincts because, beyond what you know exists or what you're told exists in a given area, your intuition plays a big part in finding something special.
All of those years, I felt like 'Heaven's Gate' was a beautiful, fantastically colored balloon tied to a string fastened to my wrist, so the balloon could never fly.
The Indians believe all things have spirit - even the hail that comes from the sky is spirit. If you believe that, which I implicitly do, everything is alive.
I felt the need to unlearn my formal education.
There's a need to dig up the past and analyze it.
I've published a couple of short novels in France that I didn't want to publish in English because I loved the characters too much to subject them to American critics who were not exactly favorable toward my work.
I never second-guess myself.
You can't look back.
When a guy is perceived as macho, female editors aren't going to like it - because they all want to be men.
Hollywood has always been crazy. It's controlled anarchy. But how can you loathe something that has given you so much?
Movies are about people; there're not about ideas. It's like great novels. Great novels are not about ideas. There's never been a great novel about ideas.
