Robert Altman Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• 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.

  Robert Altman

  Light, Radio, Might

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

  Robert Altman

  Hollywood, Stopping, Film

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

  Robert Altman

  Movie, Inspiring, Different

• I make no apologies for Popeye. Behind M*A*S*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.

  Robert Altman

  Apology, Boys, Years

• 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.

  Robert Altman

  Wish, Dollars, Tickets

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• 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.

  Robert Altman

  Men, Thinking, Years

• 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.

  Robert Altman

  Nice, Thinking, Oscars

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• 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.

  Robert Altman

  Trying, Arena, Film

• Titanic I thought was the most dreadful piece of work I've ever seen in my entire life. Another film that I think is equally bad was American Beauty. So badly acted and directed. But people like that.

  Robert Altman

  Thinking, People, Pieces

  "Altman: Titanic Worst Movie Ever" by Roger Friedman, www.foxnews.com. March 23, 2002.

• If something works for you, you continue to do it. I did a bunch of pictures for 20th Century Fox when Alan Ladd was over there, but I set the budgets so low that they'd approve and I'd deliver the film. They would have no say in it, which is the kind of arrangement I liked.

  Robert Altman

  Foxes, Kind, Film

• Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people.

  Robert Altman

  People, Use, Emotion

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

  Robert Altman

  Alive, Film, Strive

  Robert Altman, David Sterritt (2000). “Robert Altman: Interviews”, p.40, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• Every ad for every film is exactly the same.

  Robert Altman

  Film, Ads

  "Robert Altman: What I've Learned" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

• You will never see'Altman's Great Film of the Seventies: The Director's Cut' because you have never seen a film of mine that wasn't the director's cut. I have never permitted it.

  Robert Altman

  Cutting, Directors, Film

  2004 In The Independent,14 May.

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

  Robert Altman

  Mistake, Names, Giving

  "Still up to mischief" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2004.

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