[on his role in agreeing to help make
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)] They wanted to make a movie where real people had lived and died. I was quite ready to say, 'Yes, let's do that, and do that here.' And we did... [But] It was possible that my whole professional career would go up in flames. The thing I worried about was that it would be taken as a documentary rather than as the allegory that it is.