Altman

Robin Williams:
Altmanesque? Ha-ha. Expect the unexpected.

Bruce Willis:
Altmanesque? Kicking Hollywood's ass.

Title Card:
Altmanesque... 1. characterized by naturalism, social criticism, subversion of genre; 2. not conforming to predictable norms; 3. indestructible.

Interviewer:
Altmanesque. What does it mean?

Michael Murphy:
Fearless.

James Caan:
Altmanesque? Makin' your own rules.

Elliott Gould:
Altmanesque? Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Truth.

Keith Carradine:
Altmanesque? A showing Americans who we are.

Interviewer:
Altmanesque. What does it mean?

Lily Tomlin:
Ha-ha. Creating a family.

Philip Baker Hall:
What does Altmanesque mean? I would say it means, never giving up.

Interviewer:
Altmaneseque. What does it mean?

Julianne Moore:
How vulnerable we are.

Lyle Lovett:
Altmanesque? Storytelling. Masterful storytelling.

Interviewer:
Altmaneseque. What does it mean to you?

Paul Thomas Anderson:
Its inspiration.

Kathryn Reed:
One day, years and years ago, just after the war, Bob had nothing to do and he went to a theater in the middle of the afternoon to see a movie. Not a Hollywood movie, a British movie.

Title Card:
Brief Encounter - Directed by DAVID LEAN - 1945

Kathryn Reed:
He said the main character was not glamorous. Not a babe. And at first he wondered why he was even watching it. But, twenty minutes later he was in tears and had fallen in love with her. And it made him feel that it wasn't just a movie.

Kathryn Reed:
David Brown, the Producer, told Bob that he had a project that Bob was born to direct, because it struck everything that was wrong with Hollywood. And it was true. Nobody but Bob could have pulled off "The Player" the way he did. It gave him the chance to crucify forever Hollywood's entire way of making movies.

Robert Altman:
Most of the scripts that they send me are studio scripts. I mean, I'd be embarrassed to be associated with them. I don't think there's anything I could do other than radically change them; which, these people don't want. I make gloves and they sell shoes.

Robert Altman:
I equate films with sand castles. You get a bunch of mates and you go down and you say I"m going to build this great sand castle and you build it. Then, the tide comes in and twenty minutes its just smooth sand. And that structure you made is in everybodies' memory and that's it.