Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

Conspiracy nut, leftist, madman. These are terms of dismissal so you don't have to listen to the argument. It would be healthier and more fun to hear what someone has to say.

Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

We could learn a lot from the ancients, and we should go back there.

There is this thing about time that you can't see at the time you're at.

I feel like I am what I am.

Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.

We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.

Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.

The first casualty of war is innocence.

I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.

I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?

The past assumes the nature of the present.

I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.

If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

I think our life is a series of adventures.