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When I Do A Novel, I Don't Really Use The Script, I Use The Book; When I Did Apocalypse Now, I Used Heart Of Darkness. Novels Usually Have So Much Rich Material.

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!

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.

You Have To Really Be Courageous About Your Instincts And Your Ideas. Otherwise You'll Just Knuckle Under, And Things That Might Have Been Memorable Will Be Lost.