Michael Cimino Quotes

There's been a lot of lies written about me.

My problem is that people have been writing books about me.A lot of things that people write about you are incorrect, but you don't fight about it.

There have already been published by the bucketsful such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had allowed myself to pay attention to them.

Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it's hard to know what to make of those who still insist that David Brock had it right the first time.

Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.

A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing about.

What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.

Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.

A lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don't know where they get it from, sometimes.

I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.

When you're in the middle of a rumor storm, your two choices are not very good .... And there are some Americans who will believe that where there's smoke there's fire.

I've wrongly been called sick by newspapers and magazines throughout my entire career.

A lot of what's been written about me is not true: of my family history or my choices or my interests. Actually, I've never read anything written about me that was true. It's been completely crazy.

To be lied about, to be slandered, to be smeared so publicly, and before your family that you love, is very painful.

No sane man objects to palpable lies about him; what he objects to is damaging facts.

It destroys you when people say complete mistruths about your family.

Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object.

There are lots of people who believe that caricature of me the tabloids created, so they think they don't like me.

My parents, particularly my father, had been used by commentators, political journalists and political commentators, to attack me, and the collateral damage was the reputations of my father and my mother.

I really can't help what someone thinks of me because they are reading a paper and choosing to believe it.

A lot of rumours on the Internet are wrong and horrible.

I find it utterly bizarre that total strangers write about your life in a completely fictional manner.

Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true.

I have one major problem with the internet: It's full of liars. There doesn't seem to be any way to answer to people lying about you.