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
Jazz has endured because it doesn't have a beginning or an ending. It's a moment.
What is an ending? Theres no such thing. Death is the only ending.
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.
Your own ego is the only trap that I think you can fall into.
I have never made a movie that's attracted a 14-year-old boy.
I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.
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.
Men make clothes for the women they'd like to be with or in most cases the women they'd like to be.
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.
[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.
Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.
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.