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• I know the law since I have spent my entire life in its flagrant disregard.

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

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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.

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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.

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• Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about – courage.

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• Yeah, there’s absolutely. I mean, remember when The Searchers came out, it was a relatively big hit for a Western, and I think it made 5 million bucks – I don’t even think it made that.

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• You never know when you’re going to be considered un-hip… The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.

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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.

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• Yeah, I think that’s it… It’s like Jesse James. He became really popular because he lasted so long. You know, there is some degree of truth to the fact that time will dignify anything, too.

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• Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don’t want to learn those skills.

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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.

   

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• The filmmakers always have a great level of control.

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• Most artists think they’re frauds anyway.

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• Matter of fact, the style that people use today, I invented in a way.

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• ‘m a general, I do something. I go out and fight wars and win them.

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• I’ve always had trouble with authority.

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

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• I think Francis at half form is better than anybody else by 50%, you know? I think it’s just that he has never… he has a late pick of the things that are ambitious enough for him.

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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.

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

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John Milius (29)

Birth:	11th April, 1944
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter

About

John Frederick Milius was born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He is an American screenwriter, film director and producer of motion pictures. He directed several films include: Dillinger, The Wind and the Lion, Big Wednesday, Conan the Barbarian, Red Dawn, Farewell to the King, and Flight of the Intruder. He has written several films include: Evel Knievel, Jeremiah Johnson, Magnum Force, Dillinger, The Wind and the Lion, Big Wednesday, Apocalypse Now (Nominated- Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium), Conan the Barbarian, Red Dawn, Extreme Prejudice, Farewell to the King, Geronimo: An American Legend, Clear and Present Danger, and Texas Rangers. He produced several films include: Hardcore, and Uncommon Valor.

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