This week I’ve been on a shoot in Kansas City, Missouri and that made me think of filmmaker Robert Altman who was born there in 1925. I found this interview shortly before he died in 2006:
Star Tribune: You’ve been described as a maverick for most of your career. Now you’ve been anointed with an Academy Award by Hollywood’s mainstream. Is that a strange transition?
Robert Altman: I don’t know how much of it sinks in for me because the road I’ve taken has, for me, been the easiest road. I followed my nose and I don’t see those kinds of things that other people say they see.
My ambitions are basically the same as everybody else’s ambitions. I want to make a lot of money, I want a lot of success, I want a lot of admiration. But basically, you go back to your own sensibilities and what interests me.
June 4, 2006: Q & A with Robert Altman
Article by Deborah Rybak and Jeff Strickler
According to Altman’s IMDB bio he went to Rockhurst High School in Kansas City “where he began exploring cheap tape recorders,” before going on to make M*A*S*H, The Player, Nashville and the 1996 film Kansas City.
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