The minute you have more than one voice, you have more possibilities opening up. You have all the molecules in all of those bodies and their make up ….

I've had it-the agencies, the winking, the networks, the ratings. Anyone who thinks TV is an art medium is crazy-it's an advertising medium..

I was scared that no one would hire me. At that time, there was still a stigma attached to it. A big stigma. Actually, I think I was healthier after ….

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….

I make no apologies for Popeye. Behind M*A*S*H, it's my biggest hit. It got maligned by the critics because it wasn't Superman. It wasn't about speci….

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 ….

Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what ….

There was not a lot of dialogue. The titles were just to keep you up. It's the visual stimulation that hits the audience. That's the reason for film.….

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

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 th….

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

I am not an expert. That is someone else's job. If I were expert, the approach would be all wrong. It would be from the inside. I am a blunderer. I u….

I never knew what I wanted, except that it was something I hadn't seen before..

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

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

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..

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

What is an ending? There's no such thing. Death is the only ending..

Why should I keep doing things that I've done before?.

They'll never give me an Oscar. And I sincerely, honestly don't care. I always turn up when I'm nominated and it would be nice to get one, but to win….

Men make clothes for the women they'd like to be with or in most cases the women they'd like to be..