Work On Nothing Less Than Epic Scale

The Things You Get Fired For When You’re Young Are The Same Things That You Get Lifetime Achievement Awards For When You’re Old.

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.

So Give Yourself That Chance To Put Together The 80, 90 Pages Of A Draft And Then Read It Very In A Nice Little Ceremony, Where You're Comfortable, And You Read It And Make Good Notes On It, What You Liked, What Touched You, What Moved You, What's A Possible Way, And Then You Go About On A Rewrite.

I've Been Offered Lots Of Movies. There's Always Some Actor Who's Doing A Project And Would Like To Have Me Do It.

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.