Men make clothes for the women they'd like to be with or in most cases the women they'd like to be.

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.

Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.

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.

Words don't tell you what people are thinking. Rarely do we use words to really tell. We use words to sell people or to convince people or to make them admire us. It's all disguise. It's all hidden -- a secret language.

Men make clothes for the women they'd like to be with or in most cases the women they'd like to be.

I don't know what "Altmanesque" means, though I suppose I'm flattered by it.