I hate to go out on a limb after only one viewing, but Nashville strikes me as Altman's best film, and the most exciting dramatic musical since Blue Angel.

Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today.

I'm afraid you can't create tragedy out of abnormal psychology.

There's a part of me that looks beyond everything now.

I never argue with people about movies.

I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had.

I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.