Danny Boyle on Apocalypse Now:

“The whole point of the experience of this film is that you trust the madness that Coppola was in while editing it. And supposedly, he was literally holding editors ransom at the end, forcing them to try things. And from a cool, rational perspective, you would think, ‘Surely it’s a good idea to let Francis have a relook at a film and think how he might want to change things.’ But no, the whole point about it, when you see it, when you see it at the end of—what was it?—a three- to four-year journey to make it, that’s what you see. What you don’t want to see is a reexamination of it from a more leisurely perspective. The fact that it’s edited from inside the storm, that’s where you want to see it edited from. You don’t want to see it edited in a proper, rational, professional way. You want to see it edited by someone who is insane or going insane.”