[M*A*S*H] didn't get released by FOX, it escaped.
If something works for you, you continue to do it. I did a bunch of pictures for 20th Century Fox when Alan Ladd was over there, but I set the budgets so low that they'd approve and I'd deliver the film. They would have no say in it, which is the kind of arrangement I liked.
I like audiences to crane their necks.
I have never made a movie that's attracted a 14-year-old boy.
Why should I keep doing things that I've done before?
I insist that they do what they became actors to do. I want them to create something and not just hit marks and say words. So they all love that because they're playing. It's called playacting. Their contributions are not only welcomed, but are accepted and used.