Why was Eleanor recording her conversations with Francis?
I think she was documenting the making of a film. I think he was having a hard time and she was acting as a kind of confessor. He was struggling with the movie, was psychologically wound up about it and she was there to record it. What were their intentions for it prior to your involvement? I don’t know what her intentions were. I asked her once but I don’t remember what she said. My gut is that she said something like she was just documenting everything and didn’t know what her intentions were. They may have been intended more for her book, I think. It’s funny, but it’s hard for me to think of Apocalypse Now without looking at through the filter of your documentary. That’s cool. And now the DVD’s coming out and there’s some controversy. Yeah. I was just disappointed that after I’d spent years talking to Francis about putting it out on DVD–New Criterion wanted to do it–he promised me he’d get in touch with me. He suggested that he wanted some editorial changes which I was willing to
