Robert Altman
Robert Altman
Robert Bernard Altmanwas an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. A five-time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Director and an enduring figure from the New Hollywood era, Altman was considered a "maverick" in making films with a highly stylized perspective unlike most Hollywood films. He is consistently ranked as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in history...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth20 February 1925
CityKansas City, MO
CountryUnited States of America
That wasn't an ending. It was just a stopping point.
[M*A*S*H] didn't get released by FOX, it escaped.
Every ad for every film is exactly the same.
I never knew what I wanted, except that it was something I hadn't seen before.
The minute you have more than one voice, you have more possibilities opening up. You have all the molecules in all of those bodies and their make up interacting.
Making a movie is like chipping away at a stone. You take a piece off here, you take a piece off there and when you're finished, you have a sculpture. You know that there's something in there, but you're not sure exactly what it is until you find it.
All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive.
If George W. Bush is elected president, I'm leaving for France.
[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.
Jazz has endured because it doesn't have a beginning or an ending. It's a moment.
Retirement? You're talking about death, right?
Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.
I was a heavy drinker, but the alcohol affected my heart rather than my liver. So I stopped. I smoke grass now. I say that to everybody, because marijuana should be legalized. It's ridiculous that it isn't. If at the end of the day I feel like smoking a joint I do it. It changes the perception of what I've been through all day.
We're not against each other. They sell shoes and I make gloves.