Work On Nothing Less Than

Always Make Your Work Be Personal. And, You Never Have To Lie... There Is Something We Know That's Connected With Beauty And Truth. There Is Something Ancient. We Know That Art Is About Beauty, And Therefore It Has To Be About Truth.

My Film Isn't About Vietnam. It Is Vietnam. It's What It Was Really Like. It Was Crazy. And The Way We Made It Was Very Much Like The Way The Americans Were In Vietnam. We Were In The Jungle, There Were Too Many Of Us, We Had Access To Too Much Money, Too Much Equipment And Little By Little We Went Insane.

The Whole Reason One Wants To Do Lower Budget Films Is Because The Lower The Budget, The Bigger The Ideas, The Bigger The Themes, The More Interesting The Art.

Whom God Wishes To Destroy, He First Makes Successful In Show Business.

I Was A Pretty Shy, Lonely Kid. I Blossomed About Age 17, When I Went To College.