Sam Raimi Quotes

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• Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
• As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had…
• Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.
• I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.
• I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
• I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or…
• I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me there are birds in the neighbourhood.
• I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give them as much energy as they're…
• I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
• I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in…
• Rob [Tapert], myself and Bruce Campbell sat in hundreds of drive-insnot hundreds, but tens of drive-ins, watching these movies and learning how they were made,…
• I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound,
• I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.
• That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.
• I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
• I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.
• I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too…
• I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the…
• I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.
• I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

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