I like audiences to crane their necks.

Happy endings are absolutely ludicrous, they're not true at all. We see the guy carry the girl across the threshold and everybody lives happily ever after -- that's bullshit. Three weeks later he's beating her up and she's suing for divorce and he's got cancer.

The Oscar for the films, it'd be nice. But I don't make those kind of films, and I don't think that will ever happen.

Most of my films I call arena films. I deal with a confined area -- an arena -- and I try to cover every aspect of it.

[M*A*S*H] didn't get released by FOX, it escaped.

[The Player is] not a truthful indictment of Hollywood. It's much uglier than I portrayed it, but nobody would've been interested if I'd shown just how sadistic, cruel and self-orientated it is.

I like audiences to crane their necks.