The Photographer And The Director Are Where

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.

I Became Quite Successful Very Young, And It Was Mainly Because I Was So Enthusiastic And I Just Worked So Hard At It.

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.

I Just Finished A Film A Few Days Ago, And I Came Home And Said I Learned So Much Today. So If I Can Come Home From Working On A Little Film After Doing It For 45 Years And Say, "i Learned So Much Today," That Shows Something About The Cinema. Because The Cinema Is Very Young. It's Only 100 Years Old.

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.