Quotes by Richard Donner - Page 1

I was tweaked by the idea of Superman immediately.
Richard Donner / Film Director
Immediately
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VERISIMILITUDE (the appearance or semblance of truth)
Richard Donner / Film Director
Appearance
Semblance
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I was very lucky. I started my own commercial company.
Richard Donner / Film Director
Commercial
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I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor.
Richard Donner / Film Director
Actors
Trying
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It's developing a relationship with actors that makes it work.
Richard Donner / Film Director
Developing
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With The Omen, I really felt I wasn't in control. It was panic.
Richard Donner / Film Director
Omen
Panic
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In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.
Richard Donner / Film Director
Actors
Cameras
Motion Pictures
Rules
Camera
Motion
Pictures
Served
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It was just the thrill of a lifetime. Brando and Hackman were two of my heroes.
Richard Donner / Film Director
Brando
Firefighter
Hero
Lifetime
Thrill
Two
Heroes
Hackman
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I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.
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Genius
I Realized
Motion Pictures
Geniuses
Motion
Pictures
Realized
Surrounding
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Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film.
Richard Donner / Film Director
Film
Producers
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I think what some people are doing with effects is starting to get silly. It's overused.
Richard Donner / Film Director
Effects
Overused
Silly
Stupid
Thinking
Some People
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People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It's always been a great trip.
Richard Donner / Film Director
Journey
Dues
Paid
People
Great Always Your
Great People Always
People Say
Trip
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Soon it's all going to be digital anyway. It's all going to be saved on a little coin somewhere.
Richard Donner / Film Director
Digital
Saved
Anyway
Somewhere
Coin
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How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?
Richard Donner / Film Director
Men
Actors
Convince
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When when my first feature opportunity came along, I wasn't prepared, but we did it in about 17 days.
Richard Donner / Film Director
Prepared
Feature
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Working with Christopher, he convinced me he could fly, and he's convinced me he's going to walk again.
Richard Donner / Film Director
Christopher
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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.
Richard Donner / Film Director
Objectivity
Point Of View
Subjective
Views
Comments
Narrow
Objective
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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 to make the new Superman.
Richard Donner / Film Director
Movie
Actors
Bros
Disappointed
Film
Filmmaking
Thinking
Warner Bros
Enough Me New
Highly
Superman
Warner
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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, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work.
Richard Donner / Film Director
Running
Long
Narrow-minded
Subjective
Subjectivity
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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 hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking.
Richard Donner / Film Director
Movie
Couple
Filmmaking
Horns
Horny
Hurt
Locked
Life Moment My Life
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I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries.
Richard Donner / Film Director
Documentaries
Lying
Painting
Truck
Drive
Assistant
Commercials
Editorial
Sets
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I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks... lying that I knew how to drive a truck... and doing commercials and documentaries.
Richard Donner / Film Director
Assistants
Documentaries
Lying
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When I was doing half-hour shows, I loved it and was preparing myself for the hour shows. Then when I did the hour shows, I was preparing myself for the specials and features.
Richard Donner / Film Director
Features
Preparing
Hour
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I had life threats, because people accused me of approaching Brando as God and his son was Jesus. I literally had people saying my blood would run in the streets for doing that.
Richard Donner / Film Director
Jesus
Accused
Blood
Brando
Son
Streets
Life God Me
Approaching
Literally
Threats
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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 market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world.
Richard Donner / Film Director
Opportunity
Advertising
Progress
Talent
World
Documentary
Market
Open Market
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It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important.
Richard Donner / Film Director
Opportunity
Film School
Important
Northwestern
School
Time Great Important
Beginning
Graduating
Major
Opportunities
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It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?
Richard Donner / Film Director
Adaptation
Book
Comic
Comic Book
Different
Thinking
Attempts
Crappy
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