That wasn't an ending. It was just a stopping point.

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

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.

I want to see something that I've never seen before, so how can I tell that actor what that is? I'm not trying to construct a document or situation that is what I want, because what I want is something new to me.

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

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.

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.