Most Of My Films I Call Arena

Making A Movie Is Like Chipping Away At A Stone. You Take A Piece Off Here, You Take A Piece Off There And When You're Finished, You Have A Sculpture. You Know That There's Something In There, But You're Not Sure Exactly What It Is Until You Find It.

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.

What Is A Cult? It Just Means Not Enough People To Make A Minority.

[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.

Words Don't Tell You What People Are Thinking. Rarely Do We Use Words To Really Tell. We Use Words To Sell People Or To Convince People Or To Make Them Admire Us. It's All Disguise. It's All Hidden -- A Secret Language.