Robert Altman Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

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• 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.

  Robert Altman

  Girl, Cancer, Divorce

  Robert Altman, David Sterritt (2000). “Robert Altman: Interviews”, p.166, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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.

  Robert Altman

  Trying, Want, Actors

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• Retirement? You're talking about death, right?

  Robert Altman

  Retirement, Talking

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• I like audiences to crane their necks.

  Robert Altman

  Necks, Cranes, Audience

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

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• 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

  Voice, Opening Up, Molecules

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

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

  Robert Altman

  Movie, Inspiring, Different

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• 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.

  Robert Altman

  Art, Crazy, Thinking

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

  Robert Altman

  Mean, Knows, Flattered

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

  Robert Altman

  Done, Should, Should I

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• 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

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• I was scared that no one would hire me. At that time, there was still a stigma attached to it. A big stigma. Actually, I think I was healthier after the operation than some people who have bypass surgery because I was completely cured. But when you mentioned "heart transplant," you got a very negative reaction. It triggered people's imaginations, and not in a good way.

  Robert Altman

  Heart, Thinking, Imagination

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

  Robert Altman

  Too Much

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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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

  Robert Altman

  Mean, People, Minorities

  In 'Guardian' 11 April 1981

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

  Robert Altman

  Leaving, President, France

  "Director Vows To Flee U.S. If Bush Wins". abcnews.go.com.

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

  Robert Altman

  Men, Clothes, Cases

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• [M*A*S*H] didn't get released by FOX, it escaped.

  Robert Altman

  Foxes

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