I never knew what I wanted, except that it was something I hadn't seen before.
What is an ending? There's no such thing. Death is the only ending.
What is a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.
I like audiences to crane their necks.
Most of my films I call arena films. I deal with a confined area -- an arena -- and I try to cover every aspect of it.
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.