Art Depends On Luck And Talent.

One Thing That I'm Sure Of Is The Real Pleasure Of Life - It's Not Being Known, It's Not Having Your Own Jet Plane, It's Not Having A Mansion The Pleasure Is To Learn Something

All Of A Sudden, There Are Great Japanese Films, Or Great Italian Films, Or Great Australian Films. It's Usually Because There Are A Number Of People That Cross-pollinated Each Other.

The Whole Reason One Wants To Do Lower Budget Films Is Because The Lower The Budget, The Bigger The Ideas, The Bigger The Themes, The More Interesting The Art.

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.

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.