"I realized what you could do in motion……" — Richard Donner
"I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses."
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30 Quotes by Richard Donner
Richard Donner has 30 quotes on this site.
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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 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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If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open…
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More Genius Quotes
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Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.
— Pietro Aretino
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I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let…
— Pietro Aretino
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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
— Aristotle
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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium…
— Antonin Artaud
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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow…
— Charles Babbage
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
— Francis Bacon
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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much…
— Francis Bacon
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From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not…
— Honore de Balzac
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Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may…
— George Matthew Adams
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