I was a heavy drinker, but the alcohol affected my heart rather than my liver. So I stopped. I smoke grass now. I say that to everybody, because marijuana should be legalized. It's ridiculous that it isn't. If at the end of the day I feel like smoking a joint I do it. It changes the perception of what I've been through all day.

I've never had a big hit movie. "MASH" was probably the biggest. I don't make those kind of films, and I never have. I wish each one of them would just do billions of dollars worth of ticket sales, but they never do and they never will.

Your own ego is the only trap that I think you can fall into.

I've had it-the agencies, the winking, the networks, the ratings. Anyone who thinks TV is an art medium is crazy-it's an advertising medium.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

Jazz has endured because it doesn't have a beginning or an ending. It's a moment.

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.