[From a May 1, 2004 article entitled “Still Up to Mischief” from The Guardian reporting on and quoting Altman]Still, it’s worth noting that by the age of 20 this whistle- blower had resisted two of...

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

If you don’t have a leg to stand on, you can’t put your foot down.

Maybe there’s a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people.

If George W. Bush is elected president, I’m leaving for France.

It’s all just one film to me. Just different chapters.

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

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

Titanic I thought was the most dreadful piece of work I’ve ever seen in my entire life. Another film that I think is equally bad was American Beauty. So badly acted and directed. But people...