Robert Altman - biography

“Yeah, I have three sons working on Fool For Love...  That’s what sons are for.  Help you run the farm.”

“It’s very hard to fine anyone with any decency in the business.  They all hide behind the corporate structure.  They’re like landlords who kick people out of tenement buildings.  There’s no compassion and there’s certainly no interest in the arts.”

“Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

Robert Altman directed the following films:
Countdown (1967)
M.A.S.H. (1970)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
California Split (1974)
Nashville (1975)
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson (1976)
A Wedding (1978)
Quintet (1979)
HealtH (1980)
Popeye (1980)
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982)
Streamers (1983)
O.C. and Stiggs (1985)
Fool for Love (1985)
Aria (1987)
Beyond Therapy (1987)
Vincent and Theo (1990)
The Player (1992)
Short Cuts (1993)
Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
Kansas City (1996)
Cookie’s Fortune (1999)
Dr T and the Women (2000)
Gosford Park (2001)
The Company (2003)
A Prairie Home Companion (2006)


Robert Altman contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
Christmas Eve (1947)
Bodyguard (1948)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson (1976)
A Wedding (1978)
Quintet (1979)
HealtH (1980)
Aria (1987)
Beyond Therapy (1987)
Vincent and Theo (1990)
Short Cuts (1993)
Kansas City (1996)
Dr T and the Women (2000)
Gosford Park (2001)