“You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a vari...” — Robert Gottlieb Quote

You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series of unresolved murder mysteries; as the manifestation of one woman's peculiar psychic life; as a lesson in forensics; as a metaphor for the fate of women; as a photographic study.

With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling in love with a book they can make into a movie with worldwide appeal.

Why movie and dance critics are taking 'The Company' seriously, I can't imagine. Are they impressed by Altman's reputation and naive sincerity? By the fluid semi-documentary approach?

How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'

Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

I could kill you a thousand times over Abraham, but we would never be even. You took everything I had.