Attention, attention: Saturday night’s movies at the Walter Reade Theater in Lincoln Center will include a special showing of “MASH,” the 1970 Robert Altman comedy that used the Korean War as a vehicle to satirize the Vietnam War. This screening, celebrating the 75th anniversary of the 20th Century Fox studio and the 40th anniversary of “MASH,” and presented by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, will feature a question-and-answer session with the film’s stars Elliott Gould (who played Trapper John McIntyre), Sally Kellerman (Margaret Houlihan, a k a Hot Lips) and Tom Skerritt (Duke Forrest), as well as Mr. Altman’s widow, Kathryn Reed Altman.

In honor of the occasion, Mr. Gould, 72, spoke recently to Dave Itzkoff for the ArtsBeat blog of The New York Times about his reflections on “MASH,” his work with Mr. Altman and his legendary facial hair. These are excerpts from that conversation. That is all.

Q. So you’re staying in one place for a moment, and you’ve got a steady cellphone signal?

A. I don’t know. I can’t guarantee this technology. I have a little, modest mobile phone. And I’m out on the tip of Long Island, where I haven’t really been before, so we’ll do the best that we can.

Q. Forty years after the fact, do you ever get tired of talking about “MASH”?

A. No, I couldn’t. I was so grateful for the opportunities to work with Robert Altman, and “MASH” was the first opportunity, as well as the most popular thing that I’ve ever been involved with. I’ve watched it quite a few times this past year, and I always see something new and fresh, or hear something that I hadn’t heard before. It’s like I’m here, I’m looking out over the ocean, and I can’t imagine being bored or tired of that.