John Milius Quotes

• Everybody's a filmmaker today.

  John Milius

  Movie, Gambling, Today

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 07, 2003.

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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

  Guy, Pieces, Paper

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• I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.

  John Milius

  Stars, War, Pretentious

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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

  Quality, Directors, Fields

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 7, 2003.

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• Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

  John Milius

  Movie, Inspiring, Film

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 07, 2003.

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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

  Mean, Strange, Made

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 7, 2003.

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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

  Writing, Skills, People

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• I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.

  John Milius

  Mean, Film Critics, Film

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 7, 2003.

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• No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.

  John Milius

  Comeback, Born, Storyteller

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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

  Integrity, Men, Live Your Life

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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

  Thinking, Directors, Want

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• The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.

  John Milius

  People, Judgment

  "An interview with John Milius" by Ken P., www.ign.com. May 7, 2003.

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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

  Drama, Writing, Skills

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• I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

  John Milius

  Way, Kind, Screenwriting

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• Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.

  John Milius

  Men, Tickets, Murder

  "Fictional character: Willard". "Apocalypse Now", www.imdb.com. 1979.

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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

  Want, Darling, Critics

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 7, 2003.

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• I was never conscious of my screenplays having any acts. It's all bullshit.

  John Milius

  Bullshit, Conscious, Screenplays

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• The filmmakers always have a great level of control.

  John Milius

  Levels, Filmmaker

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 7, 2003.

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• I also thought of myself as the Sonny Barger of the film industry.

  John Milius

  Film, Industry, Film Industry

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 7, 2003.

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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

  Being Strong, Courage, Simple

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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

  People, Giants, Looks

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• I've always been able to survive by writing, though.

  John Milius

  Writing, Able

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 7, 2003.

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• I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce.

  John Milius

  Divorce, Wife, Apocalypse

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• Most artists think they're frauds anyway.

  John Milius

  Artist, Thinking, Hype

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• A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.

  John Milius

  Civilization, People, Threat

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 7, 2003.

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