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

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.

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

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.

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.

Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind.

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

People are still living in the moment, and they feel the passion of now.