Tim Robbins

And I'm just like, how did I get here?

And I had a similar experience with Robert Altman.

Oh, yes, right.

So when I was in high school, and you mentioned what affected me or influenced me, seeing Nashville in 1976 blew my mind.

I had seen movies before that, but I had never seen anything that encapsulated the whole society in a movie.

And I thought, wow, wow.

You can make movies like that?

And I was addicted to his movies after that.

And all those other great filmmakers, by the way, in the 70s, Hal Ashby with Harold and Maude and Pakula and all those great early Scorsese movies.

It was a fertile time.

These were incredible people.

So then two years later, being in a room where I'm meeting Robert Altman for the first time, I'd driven there

I had asked my agent, what are the sides?

What do I have to do?

I want to be in this movie.

No sides, no audition.

He just wants to meet you, right?

So I was sitting down at lunch with Robert Altman at his place.

1991.

And I'm, you know, I've done a few movies.