'Apocalypse Now' does not alienate us or deconstruct itself. In fact, it welcomes us in.
It's much easier to make a movie with kind of stylistic pyrotechnics because you can hide behind that if there's a gap in the story.
My wife thinks I have an obsession with social class. So I guess I have an obsession with social class. It probably stems from feeling like an outcast.
The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.
Sean Penn has announced his retirement from acting about 72 times.
What I do have to get across is the truth of the moment within the given scene. It's my job, as a director and screenwriter, to create the environment in which all those moments will come together eventually.
