I Was Never Sloppy With Other People's

In America, Even The Critics - Which Is A Pity - Tend To Genre-ize Things. They Have A Hard Time When Genres Get Mixed. They Want To Categorize Things. That's Why I Love Wes Anderson's Films And The Coen Brothers, Because You Don't Know What You're Going To Get, And Very Often You Get Something That You Don't Expect And That's Just What A Genre's Not Supposed To Do.

A Director Is The Ringmaster Of A Circus That's Inventing Itself.

I Think It's Better To Be Overly Ambitious And Fail Than To Be Underambitious And Succeed In A Mundane Way. I Have Been Very Fortunate. I Failed Upward In My Life!

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

The Only Tv I Would Be Interested In Exploring Would Be Live Television. There's No Substitute For A Team Of Artists Performing At Their Peak Live When Failure Is Possible. It's A High-wire Act. That Excites Me.