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michael cimino as (some of) my favorite publications: a thread 
“if personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him”
“if personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him”
“now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is”
“there is a stubbornness about me that can never bear to be frightened at the will of others. my courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me”
“everything wants to be loved, us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved”
“if there’s one thing i learned from my dad leaving my mom, it’s that love isn’t a choice. you fall for the person, not their chromosomes”
“what matters is a woman making art out of everything she was born with”
“and every day the boy would come and he would gather her leaves and play king of the forest”
“as long as she loves me and i love her, what difference does religion make?”
“ i want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches the most. i don't know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way this constant hungry waiting would be over”
“of course they needed to care, it was the meaning of everything”
“and our lips meet with feels- like not slow-motion- but every moment in my life and the lack of time altogether”
“you have been my friend, that in itself is a tremendous thing”
