101 Quotes by Robert Altman

I was a heavy drinker, but the alcohol affected my heart rather than my liver. So I stopped. I smoke grass now. I say that to everybody, because marijuana should be legalized. It's ridiculous that it isn't. If at the end of the day I feel like smoking a joint I do it. It changes the perception of what I've been through all day.

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

I'll give you the same advice I give my children: Never take advice from anybody.

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

Making a movie is like chipping away at a stone. You take a piece off here, you take a piece off there and when you're finished, you have a sculpture. You know that there's something in there, but you're not sure exactly what it is until you find it.

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.

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

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

Every ad for every film is exactly the same.