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.

We had access to too much equipment, too much money, and little by little we went insane.

As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.

I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality.

Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio.

Movies are the art form most like man's imagination.

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.