Richard Donner Quotes

• I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.

  Richard Donner

  Genius, Motion Pictures, I Realized

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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

  Journey, People, Dues

  "Interview with Director Richard Donner". Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. May 1, 2001.

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• In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.

  Richard Donner

  Cameras, Actors, Motion Pictures

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• VERISIMILITUDE (the appearance or semblance of truth)

  Richard Donner

  Appearance, Semblance

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• I think what some people are doing with effects is starting to get silly. It's overused.

  Richard Donner

  Stupid, Silly, Thinking

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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

  Views, Objectivity, Point Of View

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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

  Opportunity, Progress, World

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• I was tweaked by the idea of Superman immediately.

  Richard Donner

  Ideas

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. May 1, 2001.

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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

  Book, Thinking, Different

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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

  Movie, Hurt, Couple

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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

  Men, Actors, Convince

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. March 1, 2001.

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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

  Running, Long, Subjectivity

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• It was just the thrill of a lifetime. Brando and Hackman were two of my heroes.

  Richard Donner

  Hero, Two, Firefighter

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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

  Movie, Thinking, Actors

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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

  Lying, Assistants, Documentaries

  "Interview with Director Richard Donner". Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. May 1, 2001.

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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

  School, Opportunity, Important

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• Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film.

  Richard Donner

  Film, Producers

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• I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor.

  Richard Donner

  Trying, Actors

  "Interview With Director Richard Donner". Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. May 1, 2001.

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