Richard Donner Quotes

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• It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just…
• I think what some people are doing with effects is starting to get silly. It's overused.
• It was just the thrill of a lifetime. Brando and Hackman were two of my heroes.
• I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials…
• People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It's always been a great trip.
• I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective.
• When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long,…
• How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?
• I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.
• I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor.
• I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman.
• I was tweaked by the idea of Superman immediately.
• If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising…
• In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.
• It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at…
• It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of…
• Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film.
• VERISIMILITUDE (the appearance or semblance of truth)
• I had life threats, because people accused me of approaching Brando as God and his son was Jesus. I literally had people saying my blood…
• I was very lucky. I started my own commercial company.

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