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

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

Your own ego is the only trap that I think you can fall into.

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.

They'll never give me an Oscar. And I sincerely, honestly don't care. I always turn up when I'm nominated and it would be nice to get one, but to win one would be bad luck. It comes with too much expectation. It would be the end.

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.

Jazz has endured because it doesn't have a beginning or an ending. It's a moment.