101 Quotes by Robert Altman

Retirement? You’re talking about death, right?

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

I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don’t know what’s on the other end. Your imagination is under there.

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

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

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.

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.

Wisdom and love have nothing to do with each other. Wisdom is staying alive, survival. You’re wise if you don’t stick your finger in the light plug. Love – you’ll stick your finger in anything.

I have never made a movie that’s attracted a 14-year-old boy.