Nashville

“I really was thinking a lot about it when I wrote Boogie Nights. I was going how what — blatantly either ripping it off or totally being influenced or whatever. But I think what happens is it's just in my DNA. I grew up watching those movies and seeing those movies. So it's just informed me and informed how I want to tell stories.”

Paul Thomas Anderson

Director, Producer, Writer

“Great, great American film. That 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 without being...”

Kim Cattrall

Actor

“The first film that I saw in my life that changed my perception of film and made me believe that I could someday make a film was Altman's Nashville. There was something so epic in the scope of it, something so — a spirit of mischievousness.”

Tim Robbins

Actor, Director

“His best movie. One of the best movies about America.”

Karsten Runquist

Film Critic, YouTuber