Time is the lens through which dreams are captured.

I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.

In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.

I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.

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.

When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved - the financiers, the studio and the producers and also, many times, the foreign distributors. So it is a time of tremendous pressure and uncertainty.

Today's winemakers still worry about quality.