Filmmaking Is A Chance To Live Many

Happy Endings Are Absolutely Ludicrous, They're Not True At All. We See The Guy Carry The Girl Across The Threshold And Everybody Lives Happily Ever After -- That's Bullshit. Three Weeks Later He's Beating Her Up And She's Suing For Divorce And He's Got Cancer.

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.

All Of My Films Deal With The Same Thing: Striving, Socially And Culturally, To Stay Alive.

Filmmaking Is A Chance To Live Many Lifetimes.

[the Player Is] Not A Truthful Indictment Of Hollywood. It's Much Uglier Than I Portrayed It, But Nobody Would've Been Interested If I'd Shown Just How Sadistic, Cruel And Self-orientated It Is.