Robert Altman
April, 1971
"I Learned to be very comfortable with my failures; I can do it with success, too--but it's tougher." Director Robert Altman, 46--a veteran of eight years of industrial-film making in his native Kansas City and of six behind television cameras, comaker of 1957's trail-blazing documentary The James Dean Story and free-lance author-scenarist-- has had plenty of failures to be comfortable about. "One of my pictures, Countdown, made in 1966, was, as far as I know, never shown except o...
