Work On Nothing Less Than Epic Scale

I Had A Heartbreaking Experience When I Was 9. I Always Wanted To Be A Guard. The Most Wonderful Girl In The World Was A Guard. When I Got Polio And Then Went Back To School, They Made Me A Guard. A Teacher Took Away My Guard Button.

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.

Most Italians Who Came To This Country Are Very Patriotic. There Was This Exciting Possibility That If You Worked Real Hard, And You Loved Something, You Could Become Successful.

So Much Of The Art Of Film Is To Do Less. To Aspire To Do Less.

A Lot Of The Young People Make Beautiful Films Or Big Films Or Are Able To Finance Them, But They Can't Get Anyone To Distribute Them, They Can't Get Anyone To See Them, So They Go To These Thousands Of Film Festivals. So I Still Believe That Even Though A Young Kid Might Be Able To Make A Masterpiece Or Something That Changes The Direction Of Cinema, The Issue Of How To Get It To People Is Still Not Solved.