Quotes by John Milius

John Milius

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.

Directors

Thinking

Want

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

Civilization

People

Threat

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.

Drama

Skills

Writing

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

Men

Murder

Tickets

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.

Directors

Fields

Quality

Everybody’s a filmmaker today.

Gambling

Movie

Today

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

Film

Inspiring

Movie

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

Film

Film Industry

Industry

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.

Integrity

Live Your Life

Men

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

Pretentious

Stars

War

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Quotes by John Milius

John Milius

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Everybody’s a filmmaker today.

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

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

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.

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

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