The situation clearly pains him. In many ways, they're almost disqualified. In film, like anything else, you want your crew to support you and think you're the best, not compare you to your father. I know that there's not a filmmaker alive, nor has there ever been, who has had a better shake than me. I have never been without a project that I chose, of my own creation.
Nobody can say that.
I really don't know how to answer those questions. Like most legendary directors, Altman is immersed in mystique. How funny, then, that that is the one myth Altman would seek to debunk. I don't have personality problems. I'm no maverick.