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

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

Robert Altman
Alive, Film, Strive
Robert Altman, David Sterritt (2000). “Robert Altman: Interviews”, p.40, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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.

Robert Altman
Trying, Arena, Film

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

Robert Altman
Hollywood, Stopping, Film

If something works for you, you continue to do it. I did a bunch of pictures for 20th Century Fox when Alan Ladd was over there, but I set the budgets so low that they'd approve and I'd deliver the film. They would have no say in it, which is the kind of arrangement I liked.

Robert Altman
Foxes, Kind, Film

Every ad for every film is exactly the same.

Robert Altman
Film, Ads
"Robert Altman: What I've Learned" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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.

Robert Altman
Cutting, Directors, Film
2004 In The Independent,14 May.

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