Quotes by Richard Donner

Richard Donner

How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?

Actors

Convince

Men

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

Genius

I Realized

Motion Pictures

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

Silly

Stupid

Thinking

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

Actors

Trying

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.

Assistants

Documentaries

Lying

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.

Actors

Movie

Thinking

I was tweaked by the idea of Superman immediately.

Ideas

I’m open to comments. I’m open to objective points of view, because I’ve been very narrow and very subjective.

Objectivity

Point Of View

Views

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.

Opportunity

Progress

World

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

Actors

Cameras

Motion Pictures

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Firefighter

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Hero

Hurt

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Journey

Long

Lying

Men

Motion Pictures

Movie

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Running

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Two

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Quotes by Richard Donner

Richard Donner

How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?

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

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

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

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.

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.

I was tweaked by the idea of Superman immediately.

I’m open to comments. I’m open to objective points of view, because I’ve been very narrow and very subjective.

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.

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

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