Retirement? You're talking about death, right?

What is an ending? There's no such thing. Death is the only ending.

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.

Retirement? You're talking about death, right?

I want to see something that I've never seen before, so how can I tell that actor what that is? I'm not trying to construct a document or situation that is what I want, because what I want is something new to me.

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.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.