Quotes by Robert Altman

Robert Altman

[MAS*H] didn’t get released by FOX, it escaped.

Foxes

[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

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

Alive

Film

Strive

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

Giving

Mistake

Names

Every ad for every film is exactly the same.

Ads

Film

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

Chance

Inspirational

Motivational

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.

Cancer

Divorce

Girl

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.

Experts

Fog

Jobs

I don’t know what “Altmanesque” means, though I suppose I’m flattered by it.

Flattered

Knows

Mean

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

Mean

Thinking

Writing

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Accepted

Actors

Ads

Advice

Alive

Apology

Arena

Art

Audience

Basketball

Boys

Cancer

Cases

Chance

Children

Clothes

Cranes

Crazy

Cutting

Different

Directors

Divorce

Dollars

Done

Ego

Emotion

Enemy

Expectations

Experts

Fall

Film

Fishing

Flattered

Fog

Foxes

France

Girl

Giving

Heart

Hollywood

Imagination

Inspirational

Inspiring

Jazz

Jobs

Kind

Knows

Leaving

Light

Love You

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Quotes by Robert Altman

Robert Altman

[MAS*H] didn’t get released by FOX, it escaped.

[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.

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

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

Every ad for every film is exactly the same.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

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.

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.

I don’t know what “Altmanesque” means, though I suppose I’m flattered by it.

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

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