I think any filmmaker will tell you when they wandered from theater to theater to watch their prints, it was disheartening to see the poor levels of light and the disrespect for films that existed in certain theater chains. It was always inconsistent.

Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

I've changed my style constantly, so I'm not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.

Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.