I Have Never Made A Movie That's

[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.

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.

I Like Audiences To Crane Their Necks.

I Have Never Made A Movie That's Attracted A 14-year-old Boy.