(We) were there with our tongues out over Diane Lane. If it hadn't been for her dad being there, we would have drawn and quartered her. |
Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos |
Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos |
Art depends on luck and talent. |
I do the things I love on the theory that ? there might be other people enjoying the same things that I enjoy, ... And I just gravitate to what I think is authentic, pleasurable and has quality. |
I have come here to rediscover myself as an artist. |
I see this all as steps on the path to something. Maybe I'll be more qualified to do 'Megalopolis' if I really digest this film. In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer. |
I think for me, the showdown was when my granddaughter's class asked me to come and show the film and I was embarrassed to show the normal version, ... So I cobbled together a version of the whole movie, the whole novel, and I remember looking at it and wondering, `Why did I ever cut this down?' |
I think for me, the showdown was when my granddaughter's class asked me to come and show the film and I was embarrassed to show the normal version, ... So I cobbled together a version of the whole movie, the whole novel, and I remember looking at it and wondering, 'Why did I ever cut this down?' |
I think it was more like the original Francis before The Godfather who just wanted to make personal films and use sensible-sized crews and equipment. |
I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better: time, consciousness and the dreamlike basis of reality. |
If I've met three geniuses in my life, Marlon [Brando] would have to be top of the list. |
Ironically, 'Apocalypse Now' was a great, great success and remains to this day a classic -- and really is one of the things that earns the money that supports my family, ... But at the time, when 'Apocalypse Now' was actually about to come out, I was very worried about it. |
It's a parable, it's a fable. It's almost like an intellectual Twilight Zone , ... In a way it's like a Hitchcock picture and Tim Roth is the Jimmy Stewart, the guy who gets caught up in something fascinating and big. |
The book is inherently difficult to adapt to the screen, and we've never quite found the right combination of director and writer to do it justice until now. |