Quotes by John Milius - Page 1

Everybody's a filmmaker today.
John Milius / Screenwriter
Movie
Movies
Filmmaker
Gambling
Today
Everybody
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I'm the barbarian of Hollywood.
John Milius / Screenwriter
Barbarians
Hollywood
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I've always had trouble with authority.
John Milius / Screenwriter
Authority
Trouble
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Most artists think they're frauds anyway.
John Milius / Screenwriter
Artist
Hype
Thinking
Anyway
Artists
Frauds
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I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.
John Milius / Screenwriter
Film
Film Critics
Mean
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I've always been able to survive by writing, though.
John Milius / Screenwriter
Able
Writing
Survive
To Survive
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The filmmakers always have a great level of control.
John Milius / Screenwriter
Filmmaker
Levels
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No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.
John Milius / Screenwriter
Born
Comeback
Storyteller
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I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce.
John Milius / Screenwriter
Apocalypse
Divorce
Wife
Hardly
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A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.
John Milius / Screenwriter
Civilization
People
Threat
Western
Western Civilization
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I also thought of myself as the Sonny Barger of the film industry.
John Milius / Screenwriter
Film
Film Industry
Industry
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'm a general, I do something. I go out and fight wars and win them.
John Milius / Screenwriter
Wars
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I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.
John Milius / Screenwriter
Kind
Screenwriting
Way
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Matter of fact, the style that people use today, I invented in a way.
John Milius / Screenwriter
People
Style
Use
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I was never conscious of my screenplays having any acts. It's all bullshit.
John Milius / Screenwriter
Bullshit
Conscious
Screenplays
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Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.
John Milius / Screenwriter
Inspiring
Movie
Film
Filmmaker
Pretentious
Films
Nothing Always More
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Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.
John Milius / Screenwriter
Men
Murder
Tickets
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I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.
John Milius / Screenwriter
War
Heavy
Pretentious
Series
Stars
Wars
Star Wars
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The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.
John Milius / Screenwriter
Judgment
People
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Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.
John Milius / Screenwriter
People
Skills
Writing
Great Deal
Requires
Skill
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To be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.
John Milius / Screenwriter
Courage
Smile
Being Strong
People
Simple
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I may not be the strongest guy or the most well armed, but you can put me in a room with a pencil and a piece of paper and I can kill anybody.
John Milius / Screenwriter
Guy
Paper
Pieces
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I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.
John Milius / Screenwriter
Critics
Darling
Want
Admired
Liked
Suppose
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You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for - are now looked at as classics.
John Milius / Screenwriter
Made
Mean
Strange
Classics
Looked
Vilified
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You never know when you're going to be considered un-hip... The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.
John Milius / Screenwriter
Judgment
Considered
Pass
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Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.
John Milius / Screenwriter
Quality
Directors
Egotism
Fields
Good Quality
Movie Director
Admired
Director
Commander
Tolerated
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I think Francis at half form is better than anybody else by 50%, you know? I think it's just that he has never... he has a late pick of the things that are ambitious enough for him.
John Milius / Screenwriter
Ambitious
Half
Late
Anybody Else
Francis
Pick
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Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.
John Milius / Screenwriter
Courage
Forgotten
Good Simple People
Attribute
Be Strong
Executive
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Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.
John Milius / Screenwriter
Drama
Skills
Writing
Image
Requires
Skill
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Yeah, there's absolutely. I mean, remember when The Searchers came out, it was a relatively big hit for a Western, and I think it made 5 million bucks - I don't even think it made that.
John Milius / Screenwriter
Bucks
Remember When
Searchers
Western
Yeah
Big Hit
Million
Million Bucks
Relatively
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Yeah, I think that's it... It's like Jesse James. He became really popular because he lasted so long. You know, there is some degree of truth to the fact that time will dignify anything, too.
John Milius / Screenwriter
Yeah
Time Truth Long
Degree
Truth Time Long
James
Lasted
Popular
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A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it.
John Milius / Screenwriter
Directors
Thinking
Want
Admired
Director
Exactly What
Good Director
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I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and keep the artistic integrity of your work intact, but they don't make it very easy to live your life.
John Milius / Screenwriter
Men
Artistic
Easy
Integrity
Live Your Life
Mountain
Life Work Good
Became
Good Qualities
Help
Intact
Qualities
Singular
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There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave.
John Milius / Screenwriter
Behave
Giants
Looks
People
Authentic
Giant
Looked
Motel
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