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.

I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.

Wisdom and love have nothing to do with each other. Wisdom is staying alive, survival. You're wise if you don't stick your finger in the light plug. Love - you'll stick your finger in anything.

That wasn't an ending. It was just a stopping point.

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

I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.

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