I Like Audiences To Crane Their Necks.

Retirement? You're Talking About Death, Right?

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.

I Like Audiences To Crane Their Necks.

I Don't Think Screenplay Writing Is The Same As Writing - I Mean, I Think It's Blueprinting.

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.