Art Depends On Luck And Talent.

Of All The Human Evils, Of Which We Have Thousands Of Years Of Record And Our Own Contemporary Experiences, The Most Horrible Evil Of All Is Hypocrisy. It's This Idea That There Are Those Who Do Bad And There Are Those Who Do Good, When, In Fact, Even The People Who Supposedly Do Good Are Saying They Do Good To Mask The Fact That They Do Evil.

I Don't Think There's Any Artist Of Any Value Who Doesn't Doubt What They're Doing.

I Was Raised As A Catholic, But I Didn't Like The Catholic Church At All. I Thought The Nuns Were Mean.

The Great Hope Is That People Who Wouldn't Normally Make Films Will Be Making Them. Suddenly, One Day Some Little Fat Girl In Ohio Is Going To Be The New Mozart And Make A Beautiful Film With Her Father's Camera And For Once The So Called Professionalism About Movies Will Be Destroyed Forever - And It Will Really Become An Art Form.

My Film Is Not A Movie; It's Not About Vietnam. It Is Vietnam.