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

- Robert Altman

Words don't tell you what people are thinking. Rarely do we use words to really tell. We use words to sell people or to convince people or to make th…

- Robert Altman

I am not an expert. That is someone else's job. If I were expert, the approach would be all wrong. It would be from the inside. I am a blunderer. I u…

- Robert Altman

I'll give you the same advice I give my children: Never take advice from anybody.

- Robert Altman

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

- Robert Altman

That wasn't an ending. It was just a stopping point.

- Robert Altman

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

- Robert Altman

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

- Robert Altman

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.

- Robert Altman