A Conversation with Robert Altman (2000)

Actors

• Robert Altman (actor)
• Ned Beatty (actor)
• Keith Carradine (actor)
• Henry Gibson (actor)
• Jeff Goldblum (actor)
• Karen Black (actress)
• Ronee Blakley (actress)
• Geraldine Chaplin (actress)
• Shelley Duvall (actress)
• Shelley Duvall (actress)
• Lily Tomlin (actress)

Genres

• Documentary
• Short

Nashville (1975)

Actors

• Jonnie Barnett (actor)
• Richard Baskin (actor)
• Ned Beatty (actor)
• Timothy Brown (actor)
• James Dan Calvert (actor)
• Keith Carradine (actor)
• Vassar Clements (actor)
• Robert DoQui (actor)
• Steve Earle (actor)
• Allen Garfield (actor)
• Henry Gibson (actor)
• Scott Glenn (actor)
• Jeff Goldblum (actor)
• Elliott Gould (actor)
• David Arkin (actor)

Genres

• Drama
• Music

Taglines:

Wild. Wonderful. Sinful. Laughing. Explosive.
The Home of Country Music
The damnedest thing you ever saw!

Quotes:

Barbara Jean: [after singing a song] For Momma and Daddy.

Hal Philip Walker: Who do you think is running Congress? Farmers? Engineers? Teachers? Businessmen? No, my friends. Congress is run by lawyers. A lawyer is trained for two things and two things only. To clarify - that's one. And to confuse - that's the other. He does whichever is to his client's advantage. Did you ever ask a lawyer the time of day? He told you how to make a watch, didn't he? Ever ask a lawyer how to get to Mr. Jones' house in the country? You got lost, didn't you? Congress is composed of five hundred and thirty-five individuals. Two hundred and eighty-eight are lawyers. And you wonder what's wrong in Congress. No wonder we often know how to make a watch, but we don't know the time of day.

Bill: You're supposed to wear the blue dress when I wear this.::Mary: I don't want to dress like twins anymore.::Bill: We're not twins. We're a trio.

Bill: Is this just network or is it, uh...?::John Triplette: No, it's better, it's really better than network. It's going to be syndicated, so I mean, hell, they're going to be showing it for a year and a half

Barbara Jean: [she finishes singing a song at her concert] Thank you. I wanna tell you all a little secret which you might not know, and that is that last night I thanked my lucky stars that I could be here at all to sing for ya. I heard on the radio this little boy, nine years old. Sometimes a deejay'll play a tune and ask everybody to phone in and say how they like it. I was listenin', and this little nine-year-old called in. The song had voices in the background, like the way they use backup voices these days, soundin' like little munchkins. He called up, the deejay said, "How old are you, son?" The boy said, "I'm nine, and I think it's gonna be a hit. " The deejay said, "Why?" "Because it had those chipmunks in it. " And I thought that was so cute, because, well, I can sing like a munchkin myself. I'm real fond of The Wizard of Oz. Plus, I live out, you know, just a ways off of Interstate on the road to Chattanooga. So you can see why I kinda related to that. I think me and the boys are gonna strike up another tune for you now. Let's go, boys. I think there's a storm... seems like it's a-brewin'. That's what my grandaddy used to say before he lost his hearin'. Once he got deaf, he never talked much no more. 'Cept sometimes he'd say "Oh, gosh" or "Durn it" or "My word!" My granny'd go around clickin' her teeth to the radio all day. Boy, was she a lot of fun, and cooked my favorite, roast beef. She was a sweetheart. She raised chickens too. She, um... Did you ever hear a chicken sound? You know how chickens go? Here, chick, chick, chick. Here, chick, chick, chick. Anyway, I guess we'd better strike up this tune before it's too late. Okay, boys. The first job I ever really got... Grandma... She's the one who clacked her false teeth to the radio. She taught my mama how to sing, and my mama taught me. One time she took me, 'cause we was gonna get a new Frigidaire. She took me to the Frigidaire store where the man was advertisin'. This record was goin' 'round, and Mama told him I knew how to sing. He said, "If she learns this tune, I'll give y'all a quarter. " So Mama and I went home... And then what happened? Let's see, I think... Uh, yeah. We went home and I learned both sides of the record in half an hour. We went back and told him that I'd learned 'em, and he said, "Let me hear," so I sang both sides of the record instead of just one. So he gave us cents, and we went across the street and had us a soda. Ever since then I been workin'. I don't... I think ever since then I been workin' and doin' my... - Come on, come on. - Supportin'myself. Anyway...::Barnett: [comes up on stage and starts to pull her from the microphone] Hey, hey. Hey, hey.::Barbara Jean: Am I all right? Am I all right?::Barnett: Oh, you're fine, darlin'. [he guides her offstage]

Star: You look like a guy I was in the navy with. He wouldn't bathe, so we had to pee in his bed to get him discharged.

Connie White: You're English, aren't you?::Julie Christie: Yes.::Connie White: [proudly] I could tell.

Opal: I'm Opal, from the BBC!

Barnett: [In Barbara Jean's hospital room] Now, where's Barnett goin'? Where am I goin'? Hmm?::Barbara Jean: King of the Road.::Barnett: Why am I goin' there?::Barbara Jean: To see Connie.::Barnett: And why am I doin' that?::Barbara Jean: To thank her for singin' at the Opry.::Barnett: Now, who am I doin' that for?::Barbara Jean: You're doin' it for me.::Barnett: That's right. Now, I'm walkin' out now. What do you say as I walk out? You say bye-bye.::Barbara Jean: Bye.::Barnett: Bye-bye.::Barbara Jean: Bye-bye... [He leaves her]... Barnett?

Opal: [speaking into a micro recorder as she walks through a school bus parking lot] The buses! The buses are empty and look almost menacing, threatening, as so many yellow dragons watching me with their hollow, vacant eyes. I wonder how many little black and white children have yellow nightmares, their own special brand of fear for the yellow peril... Damn it, it's got to be more... positive. No, more negative! Start again. Yellow is the color of caution. No. Yellow is the color of cowardice. Yellow is the color of sunshine. And yet I see very little sunshine in the lives of all the little black and white children. I see their lives, rather, as a study in grayness, a mixture of black and... Oh, Christ, no. That's fascist. Yellow! Yellow, yellow, yellow. Yellow fever...

Franks, Tom Filmography

• Frostbiter: Wrath of the Wendigo
  1995, role: actor , character name: Tony

Frank, Tom Filmography

• The Wino Crossing
  2014, role: actor , character name: James Sullen
• De loba
  2012, role: director
• De loba
  2012, role: actor , character name: William
• Le reste du monde
  2012, role: writer
• De loba
  2012, role: producer
• De loba
  2012, role: writer
• De loba
  2012, role: editor
• All Kids Count
  2011, role: actor , character name: Creepy Guy
• Born to Race
  2011, role: actor , character name: Racer #1
• Tournée
  2010, role: writer
• Tournée
  2010, role: miscellaneous crew
• Soulbot
  2009, role: actor , character name: Jin

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