Nashville

“I was kind of channeling Nashville on this last project that I did. It was just Ronee Blakley in that last scene and Geraldine Chaplin. Great, great American film. The narrative was so different. I remember seeing it in Calgary in a little tiny town and it just blew me away, how political it was. I know there was a lot of criticism from the country and western people when it came out because they said that's not what it's like. I think he really put his finger on something.”

“Have you got Nashville? Yeah, it's right here. As if on cue, there it is.”

“The first film that I saw in my life that changed my perception of film and basically made me believe that I could someday make a film was Altman's Nashville I saw it in the theaters when I was a teenager and there was something so epic in the scope of it something so a spirit of also mischievousness which I would later learn is one of the best things about working with Robert Altman...”