“My film is not a movie. My film is not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam. It’s what it was r

“My film is not a movie. My film is not 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 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.”

Francis Coppola at the Cannes Film Festival, 1979. From the documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse