Robert Altman: What I'm looking for is occurrence, truthful human behavior. We've got a kind of road map, and we're making it up as we travel along.
Robert Altman: Every ad for every film is exactly the same.
Robert Altman: (on making M*A*S*H and Vietnam) Our mandate was bad taste. If anybody had a joke in the worst taste, it had a better chance of getting into the film, because nothing was in worst taste than that war itself.