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

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.

Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people.

I'll give you the same advice I give my children: Never take advice from anybody.

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

The minute you have more than one voice, you have more possibilities opening up. You have all the molecules in all of those bodies and their make up interacting.

They'll never give me an Oscar. And I sincerely, honestly don't care. I always turn up when I'm nominated and it would be nice to get one, but to win one would be bad luck. It comes with too much expectation. It would be the end.