Robert Altman Quotes

• Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

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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.

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

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• If you don’t have a leg to stand on, you can’t put your foot
  down.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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Robert Altman (9)

Birth:	20th February, 1925
Death:	20th November, 2006
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Director, Screenwriter

About

Robert Bernard Altman was an American film director and screenwriter known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his body of work with an Academy Honorary Award.

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