This explains what happened to Heaven's Gate. What a moron.

Filmmaker: Don’t you miss making movies at all?

Cimino: You know, I never studied cinema. I never knew how to make a film, and I still don’t know.

Filmmaker: You’ve made seven films. You must know something.

Cimino: I’m quite astonished that I made what I made (laughter). Because, as you must know, my background is architecture, painting, that’s where I come from. I’m much more intrigued by a good building than by a good movie. I’m much more interested in a big bridge or a great new novel or a great painting.