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Robert Altman's life and career contained multitudes. This father of American independent cinema left an indelible mark, | dG1fNVVVbkcxczFXVWc
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00:00The films that they want to make now they're films that I don't want to make and the films
00:11I do want to make they don't want to make I think you will find these accommodating they're quite
00:20dry with the war going on the timing work the picture was such a hit it was phenomenal what
00:29I'm doing is simply reflecting what I see and feel if it's ugly that's what I see
00:35expect the unexpected Popeye occasionally what I do becomes very successful and and then I'm a
00:45failure and a has-been and then I cross back again to me I'm going in a straight line everybody else
00:51is just going like this is the player your revenge against Hollywood so what's the story well I want
00:56Bruce Willis Hollywood has always maintained its objectivity which is greed and trying to get rid
01:03of all the artists kicking Hollywood's ass one guy said he'd finance the film if Bob would rewrite
01:08the ending and who turns out to have done it I couldn't tell you that it would spoil it for you
01:14oh but none of us will see it Bob is totally cool the British lottery fund agreed to back the film
01:20he won the lottery his films just didn't look or sound like anyone else's and they still don't
01:26Bob loved to throw a party I would catch him sitting in the corner just looking at everybody with that
01:33grin on his face it was like one of his movies and he loved the cast I equate films with sandcastles
01:40you get a bunch of mates and you say I want to build this great sandcastle then the tide comes in and
01:45it's just smooth sand and that structure you made is in everybody's memory and that's it
01:50that was terrific I just want to do one more please
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