I don't know what "Altmanesque" means, though I suppose I'm flatt... by Robert Altman

I don't know what "Altmanesque" means, though I suppose I'm flattered by it.

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Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes. by Robert Altman

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

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I am not an expert. That is someone else's job. If I were expert, the approach would be all wrong. It would be from the inside. I am a blunderer. I usually don't know what I am going into at the start. I go into the fog and trust something will be there.

fog experts jobs

All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and... by Robert Altman

All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive.

strive film alive

I never knew what I wanted, except that it was something I hadn't... by Robert Altman

I never knew what I wanted, except that it was something I hadn't seen before.

There was not a lot of dialogue. The titles were just to keep you up. It's the visual stimulation that hits the audience. That's the reason for film. Otherwise, we might as well turn the light out and call it radio.

radio light might

They'll never give me an Oscar. And I sincerely, honestly don't care. I always turn up when I'm nominated and it would be nice to get one, but to win one would be bad luck. It comes with too much expectation. It would be the end.

nice expectations winning

I insist that they do what they became actors to do. I want them to create something and not just hit marks and say words. So they all love that because they're playing. It's called playacting. Their contributions are not only welcomed, but are accepted and used.

accepted actors want

[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.

hollywood player self

The artist and the multitude are natural enemies. They always will be, both ways. The artist is an enemy of the multitude, and the multitude is the enemy of the artist. And when the disguise comes off and they're both standing facing one another, they're just there at odds end.

What is an ending? There's no such thing. Death is the only endin... by Robert Altman

What is an ending? There's no such thing. Death is the only ending.

Your own ego is the only trap that I think you can fall into. by Robert Altman

Your own ego is the only trap that I think you can fall into.

ego fall thinking

Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.

names mistake giving

I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.

fishing sea rivers

If you have a child who is seven feet tall, you don't cut off his head or his legs. You buy him a bigger bed and hope he plays basketball.

cutting basketball children

I have never made a movie that's attracted a 14-year-old boy. by Robert Altman

I have never made a movie that's attracted a 14-year-old boy.

made boys years

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.

molecules opening-up voice

Most of my films I call arena films. I deal with a confined area -- an arena -- and I try to cover every aspect of it.

arena film trying

Happy endings are absolutely ludicrous, they're not true at all. We see the guy carry the girl across the threshold and everybody lives happily ever after -- that's bullshit. Three weeks later he's beating her up and she's suing for divorce and he's got cancer.

divorce cancer girl

I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean,... by Robert Altman

I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.

writing mean thinking

I want to see something that I've never seen before, so how can I tell that actor what that is? I'm not trying to construct a document or situation that is what I want, because what I want is something new to me.

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