Quotes

[on Heaven's Gate (1980)] Michael Cimino really wanted to make a perfect film. He could have made this film for much less. He overdid it; he over-complicated it. But they should not have killed him for it.

We had a terrible situation on [Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)], because they wanted to fire me several times. The only reason they didn't was because they didn't have a replacement who could take over.

I like to work with Michael Cimino. I don't like him personally--he's very difficult to work with, because he's very demanding and he doesn't think about anybody around him, he's yelling at everybody. But as a film director, I think he's one of the best.