The Oscar For The Films,

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.

If Something Works For You, You Continue To Do It. I Did A Bunch Of Pictures For 20th Century Fox When Alan Ladd Was Over There, But I Set The Budgets So Low That They'd Approve And I'd Deliver The Film. They Would Have No Say In It, Which Is The Kind Of Arrangement I Liked.

[m*a*s*h] Didn't Get Released By Fox, It Escaped.

Chance Is Another Name That We Give To Our Mistakes. And All Of The Best Things In My Films Are Mistakes.

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.