Death Is What Makes Life An Event.

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.

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.

I Was The Kind Of Kid That Had Some Talents Or Ability, But It Never Came Out In School.

The Most Adventurous Thing I've Done Is Learn How To Fly A Helicopter In The Philippines. One Night We Landed On A Beach And Slept On It.

Without A Doubt, I Was Born To Want To Make Cinema, But The Kind Of Cinema I Want To Make Is Not Like Commercial Movies, Which I Enjoy Myself, But I Wanted To Be The Kind Of Filmmaker Who Wrote Original Work, Sort Of Like A Novelist Would Who Deals With Who We Are And Our Times Or Our Relationships.