(charles champlin) and burt turned to me, and unscripted said -- asshole. (charles champlin) but the minute he said it, i said, "that scene will stay." i trust my instincts. that's all i have to trust and hope that ever 4 or 5 years i intersect with an audience and we connect. and when we connect, it's terrific. i mean "the player" connected. we were at the right place at the right time. had we done it two years before or two years afterward, it would have been the biggest dud of all time. same with "mash." same with "nashville." (music playing) (narrator) today, with movie attendance at 20% of what it was in 1946, a movie's theatrical release is just its first step in an increasingly long journey through an entertainment world. a theatrical run is followed by a pay-per-view release, a cable release, a home video release, and eventually by broadcast on network or syndicated tv. the main effect of tv now on a movie seems paradoxical. some television is imitated in the movies. some television is evaded in the movies, but television is sort of the subtext. it'