We built villages in the jungle and the weather destroyed them, and we went insane. Eventually I realized I was not making the movie. The movie was making itself - or the jungle was making it for me. When Willard finally arrives at his destination, he has been changed by the experience of making the journey. Many of the people who worked on the film were also changed.
People enjoy intensity.
The human animal seems to be drawn to it like a moth to a flame. I can't understand how you would have a bridge lit up like a Christmas tree. Guys attacking women on stage. That made no sense. I never saw us reach the point where nobody is in charge of a unit.