Obituary: Robert Altman

BBC: Obituary: Robert Altman. "The success of his first film as director, a low budget exploitation flick, titled The Delinquents, caught the eye of no less a figure than Alfred Hitchcock. Soon Altman was directing episodes of the television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

As with many of his films, much of the dialogue was improvised by cast members. Unlike his mentor, Alfred Hitchcock, who said he treated his casts like cattle, Robert Altman was known as "the actors' friend"." I'm surprised his passing made a little mentions in the states side. Cinema lost another great storyteller.