I don't know what "Altmanesque" means, though I suppose I'm flattered by it.

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

I like audiences to crane their necks.

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.

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

All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive.

I have never made a movie that's attracted a 14-year-old boy.