Robert Duvall’s famous line from his role as Lieutenant Colonel “Bill” Kilgore in 1979’s Apocalypse Now remains one of cinema’s most memorable—despite being mangled in later years by President Donald Trump.
Screenwriter John Milius told CNN that the line, “I love the smell of napalm in the morning,” was just something that came to him while writing the script for Apocalypse Now, which would go on to win the Cannes Film Festival Palm d’Or, and garner eight Academy Award nominations, winning two.
“I just wrote it—it just came up,” said Milius. “That’s what happens. People love to think that all this stuff happens when you write a famous line—that you really thought about it a lot.”
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