There Are No Ordinary Lives.

World War Ii Is Smothered In Sentimentality And Nostalgia. What's Interesting About Vietnam Is That Sentimentality Is Just Not There, So You're Given Kind Of A Clean Access To It In One Way. It's Also A War That Represents A Failure For The United States. Many People Came Back Feeling Like They Never Wanted To Talk About It Again. And So We Developed A National Amnesia.

Good History Is A Question Of Survival. Without Any Past, We Will Deprive Ourselves Of The Defining Impression Of Our Being.

Do Not Lose Your Enthusiasm. In Its Greek Etymology, The Word Enthusiasm Means, "god In Us."

Like A Layer On A Pearl, You Can't Specifically Identify The Irritant, The Moment Of The Irritant, But At The End Of The Day, You Know You Have A Pearl.

I Never, Ever Want To Apologize For A Film. If It's Bad I'll Say It's My Fault. And That's What I Can Say So Far In All The Films That I've Done, That If You Don't Like It, It's Entirely My Fault.