What Is An Ending? There's No Such

People Have Asked Me Throughout The Years Which Directors Have Influenced Me. I Don't Know Their Names, Because I Was Mostly Influenced When I'd See A Film And Think, "man, I Want To Be Sure To Never Do Anything Like That." So I Never Learned Their Names. It Wasn't A Matter Of Copying Or Emulating Somebody I Admired. It Was Getting Rid Of A Lot Of Stuff.

I Have Never Made A Movie That's Attracted A 14-year-old Boy.

I'll Give You The Same Advice I Give My Children: Never Take Advice From Anybody.

All Of My Films Deal With The Same Thing: Striving, Socially And Culturally, To Stay Alive.

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.