I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.
Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.
Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.
There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.
Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.
Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.
I think Operation Smile is in more than 22 countries, mostly Third World. It just happened that my schedule opened up at the time they were heading to Vietnam.
Back then when Chomsky and Herman wrote, the left, myself among them, all knew that something terrible was happening in Vietnam, though most now claim to remember otherwise.
I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.
I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate.
If John Kerry had a dollar for every time he bragged about serving in Vietnam - oh wait, he does.
What are we blaming? Is this Vietnam? We made a movie, it didn't make much money. I'm gonna be really happy if somebody watches it in 10 years' time and really enjoys it.
My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.
South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon.