What is an ending? There's no such thing. Death is the only ending.

I've never had a big hit movie. "MASH" was probably the biggest. I don't make those kind of films, and I never have. I wish each one of them would just do billions of dollars worth of ticket sales, but they never do and they never will.

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

What is a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.

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.

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

I never knew what I wanted, except that it was something I hadn't seen before.