Michael Cimino Quotes

I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.

We did Holy Grail, and I got my name up there as one of the directors. After that, I started moving more and more down the line I wanted to, which was making movies.

I love making movies. But it's a lot of investing your heart and soul. It can be exhausting.

Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.

At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.

I just want to make movies. I really love movies. I want to be involved with them.

I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing.

I couldn't stand still at a desk for another year. I wanted to go out there and make films.

That's true, because I'm a photographer now.

What I've always thought I would do is make a bunch of movies and then stop to teach for awhile. And then just teach at film schools - you know, teach children.

It's a real privilege to make movies.

Sometimes, I probably do mourn the fact that I no longer make films.

I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.

I really love making movies. I just have this yearning in my stomach to go back and somehow subversively screw up television a little bit again.

I've worked in the film business for 45 years, and I want to keep on growing as a filmmaker. I want to see my visual life grow and be increasingly effective in this world.

Film shouldn't be a pain. It's a creative process.

After being an actor, producing 'One By Two' was a natural progression.

I believe that filmmaking is a brilliant thing to do - be doing - for a living.

It's something I never dreamed I'd be doing, making movies.

I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years, and really thought I was going to be a filmmaker, and then I kind of drifted over to the acting side after that.

I aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.

I'm very happy in France making movies.

My two great loves when I'm shooting are working with great actors and composing images.