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

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

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

[The Player is] not a truthful indictment of Hollywood. It's much uglier than I portrayed it, but nobody would've been interested if I'd shown just how sadistic, cruel and self-orientated it is.

Your own ego is the only trap that I think you can fall into.

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.

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

I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.

If you have a child who is seven feet tall, you don't cut off his head or his legs. You buy him a bigger bed and hope he plays basketball.

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

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

Every student adheres to strict discipline

If your callswere measures of Time, a day would last a centuryand in between us would beAn Eternity.

A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel.

Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.

One of my all-time favorite workouts is boxing.

The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.

If I seem to be reckless with myself,It's the fault of no one.All things have a placeUnder the moon as well as the sun.

The aim of New Deals is to exterminate the class of creditors and thrust all men into that of debtors. It is like trying to breedcattle with all cows and no bulls.

I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership.

Something nonhuman doesn’t become human by getting older and bigger; whatever is human is human from the beginning.