"First cuts are a bitch for a director,……" — Richard Donner
"First cuts are a bitch for a director, because it's been so many months and you put your trust in your editor and you're going to see your film assembled for the first time. You look at it and go, This is terrible. I hate it."
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30 Quotes by Richard Donner
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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…
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I think what some people are doing with effects is starting to get silly. It's overused.
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It was just the thrill of a lifetime. Brando and Hackman were two of my heroes.
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I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive…
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People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It's always been a great trip.
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I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective.
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When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective,…
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How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor…
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I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.
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I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor.
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I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me…
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I was tweaked by the idea of Superman immediately.
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