The Oscar for the films, it'd be nice. But I don't make those kind of films, and I don't think that will ever happen.

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.

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.

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

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

All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive.

The artist and the multitude are natural enemies. They always will be, both ways. The artist is an enemy of the multitude, and the multitude is the enemy of the artist. And when the disguise comes off and they're both standing facing one another, they're just there at odds end.