Michael Cimino Quotes
If you can't stop somebody from working and making movies that you hate, what's the next best thing? Destroy them personally.
Abramovitch, Seth. "Michael Cimino's Final Cut." The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2015.
Ad hominum attacks are attacks against the person—not his views or arguments against them and not even what he has allegedly done or the consequences of what he has done to others. It is direct character assassination. This is much more effective than trying to argue what wrong has been done. It has been a very common tactic of the Right Wing Republicans and the Tea Party against liberals and supporters if desegregation, and has also been used by extreme leftists in attacking powerful industrialists. When Assange published thousands of State Department cables, many of which exposed the fact that Government officials had been lying to the public and Congress while under oath, there was a massive ad hominum attack on Assange casting aspersions on any information he might claim is real, but never once denying that any of the cables were genuine. The attacks claimed that Assange’s publication would cause American agents throughout the world to be exposed and killed, but even a year after these accusations, neither the State Department nor the intelligence agencies could point to a single case where an American agent had come to harm. The embarrassment was however profound, and some governments were outraged that their confidential dealings with the United State had been exposed to public scrutiny.
She was commenting on a suggestion that a Twitter User had made that any individual who felt he/she was being harassed by insulting Twitter messages, could have Twitter delete the offending content. Some of the Twitter campaigns against an individual has been gross, indecent, cruel and for the most part untrue. Hence the request. The person who perceived that he/she was being harassed was free to bring a lawsuit against the sender for defamation if the material is untrue and the person is not a Public Figure. The latter have no general right of redress in the courts.
Statement made by Cheney to Hans Blix, the chief UN weapons inspector, regarding the inspections in 2002/2003 of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction.
Michael Cimino was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and author. He achieved fame as the director of The Deer Hunter (1978), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture and earned him Best Director. However, Cimino's reputation would be tarnished by his follow-up Heaven's Gate (1980), a critical failure that became one of the biggest box-office bombs of all time.
