Asked once why he rejected the role of Randle Patrick "Mac" McMurphy in the 1975 film adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, James Caan had the honesty to say: "At the time, I thought - because I'm a genius - it wasn't visual enough. It took place in these four walls. I didn't know that (director) Milo? Forman was as good as he was. It's my opinion that I'm stuck with, unfortunately. I've made some bad choices."
1975年版《飛越瘋?cè)嗽骸冯娪案木幾钥?凱西的小說。有人問過詹姆斯?卡安，他為什么拒絕飾演片中的蘭德爾?帕特里克?麥克墨菲。他坦誠地回答道：“我當時認為故事不夠生動，因為我是個天才。故事就發(fā)生在空空的房子里。我沒想到導演米洛斯?福爾曼那么出色。很不幸，我固執(zhí)己見。我做過一些糟糕的決定。”

Jack Nicholson took the role and went on to win the Oscar for Best Actor, and the film became one of only three in movie history to win all of the "big five" Academy Awards.
杰克?尼科爾森接下了這個角色，并贏得奧斯卡最佳男主角獎。而《飛越瘋?cè)嗽骸钒鼣埩藠W斯卡的“五項大獎”，成為電影史上僅有的獲此成就的三部電影之一。