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.

Robert Altman

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If George W. Bush is elected president, I'm leaving for France. by Robert Altman

If George W. Bush is elected president, I'm leaving for France.

france leaving president

People have asked me throughout the years which directors have influenced me. I don't know their names, because I was mostly influenced when I'd see a film and think, "Man, I want to be sure to never do anything like that." So I never learned their names. It wasn't a matter of copying or emulating somebody I admired. It was getting rid of a lot of stuff.

men years thinking

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.

sculpture pieces stones

Men make clothes for the women they'd like to be with or in most... by Robert Altman

Men make clothes for the women they'd like to be with or in most cases the women they'd like to be.

clothes cases men

Jazz has endured because it doesn't have a beginning or an ending... by Robert Altman

Jazz has endured because it doesn't have a beginning or an ending. It's a moment.

jazz moments

It's all just one film to me. Just different chapters. by Robert Altman

It's all just one film to me. Just different chapters.

movie different inspiring

I've had it-the agencies, the winking, the networks, the ratings. Anyone who thinks TV is an art medium is crazy-it's an advertising medium.

crazy art thinking

Words don't tell you what people are thinking. Rarely do we use words to really tell. We use words to sell people or to convince people or to make them admire us. It's all disguise. It's all hidden -- a secret language.

secret people thinking

I'll give you the same advice I give my children: Never take advi... by Robert Altman

I'll give you the same advice I give my children: Never take advice from anybody.

advice giving children

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.

marijuana smoking heart

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.

flattered knows mean

Every ad for every film is exactly the same. by Robert Altman

Every ad for every film is exactly the same.

ads film

That wasn't an ending. It was just a stopping point. by Robert Altman

That wasn't an ending. It was just a stopping point.

stopping hollywood film

I've never had a big hit movie. "MASH" was probably the biggest. I don't make those kind of films, and I never have. I wish each one of them would just do billions of dollars worth of ticket sales, but they never do and they never will.

tickets dollars wish

The Oscar for the films, it'd be nice. But I don't make those kind of films, and I don't think that will ever happen.

oscars nice thinking

We make too much of the good and too much of the bad. by Robert Altman

We make too much of the good and too much of the bad.

too-much

What is a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minorit... by Robert Altman

What is a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.

minorities mean people

Why should I keep doing things that I've done before? by Robert Altman

Why should I keep doing things that I've done before?

should-i done should

I make no apologies for Popeye. Behind MAS*H, it's my biggest hit. It got maligned by the critics because it wasn't Superman. It wasn't about special effects and it wasn't made for 14-year-old boys. The majority of films are made for 14-year-old boys; I don't know where they get the eight bucks to get in. It's hush money from the parents.

apology boys years

Wisdom and love have nothing to do with each other. Wisdom is staying alive, survival. You're wise if you don't stick your finger in the light plug. Love - you'll stick your finger in anything.

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