101 Quotes by Robert Altman

I'm here, I think, under kind of false pretenses, and I think I have to become straight with you. Ten years ago, 11 years ago, I had a heart transplant -- a total heart transplant. I got the heart of, I think, a young woman who was about in her late 30s. So, by that calculation, you may be giving me this award too early, because I think I got about 40 years left on it -- and I intend to use it.

The movies set the pattern, and these people have copied the movies,

As a longtime Keillor fan, I'm thrilled to be doing this project with him,

as long as I last and as long as people allow me to do it.

They tested it. And it tested a little more poorly than ours had, ... So they then gave it back to me with -- they said, 'Now here's some things we think you should do.'

It's a variety show. We wrote it as we went along. As we were casting people, he was rewriting constantly. This guy's a genius. We deferred to each other. He's been in charge of himself and his show for 30 years and so have I. So we suddenly had a monster with two heads.

It's a process that I don't believe in, ... And I don't think it's correct for my kind of films.

Every time we try to turn the lights up, they say, 'Turn 'em down!'

How dare we continue to show this kind of mass destruction in movies,