"Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious……" — John Milius
"Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker."
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33 Quotes by John Milius
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- To be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people…
- I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce.
- Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to…
- A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director…
- A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.
- I'm the barbarian of Hollywood.
- Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in…
- I also thought of myself as the Sonny Barger of the film industry.
- I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.
- I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.
- I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.
- I may not be the strongest guy or the most well armed, but you can put me in a room…