Richard Donner Quotes

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

  Richard Donner

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  Tags in Public, Fly, Actor

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

  Richard Donner

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  Tags in Pictures, Realized

• I had life threats, because people accused me of approaching Brando as God and his son was Jesus. I literally had people saying my blood would run in the streets for doing that.

  Richard Donner

  Topics in God

  Tags in Saying, Doing

• 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

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  Tags in Doing, Working, Knew

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

  Richard Donner

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  Tags in Trying, Actor, Least

• I’ve always wanted to do a Crichton book. I really love his writing.

  Richard Donner

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  Tags in Book, Writing, Wanted

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

  Richard Donner

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  Tags in Open, View, Objective

• I was very lucky. I started my own commercial company.

  Richard Donner

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  Tags in Started, Lucky, Company

• I was tweaked by the idea of Superman immediately.

  Richard Donner

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  Tags in Superman, Idea

• 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

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  Tags in Enough, Film

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

  Richard Donner

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  Tags in Silly, Starting

• 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

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  Tags in Book, Done, Thinking

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

  Richard Donner

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  Tags in Actor, Rules, Pictures

• 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

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Talent, Open

• It’s developing a relationship with actors that makes it work.

  Richard Donner

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  Tags in Makes, Developing, Actors

• 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

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  Tags in School, Important, Kind

• People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It’s always been a great trip.

  Richard Donner

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  Tags in Paid, Trip, Dues

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

  Richard Donner

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  Tags in Lifetime, Heroes

• 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

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  Tags in Hurt, Moment

• Soon it’s all going to be digital anyway. It’s all going to be saved on a little coin somewhere.

  Richard Donner

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  Tags in Little, Soon, Somewhere

Richard Donner (27)

Birth:	24th April, 1930
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Director, Producer

About

Richard Donner is an American film director, film producer, and comic book writer. The production company The Donners' Company is owned by Donner and his wife, producer Lauren Shuler Donner. After directing the horror film The Omen, Donner became famous for the hailed creation of the first modern superhero film, Superman, starring Christopher Reeve. The influence of this film eventually helped establish the superhero concept as a respected film genre.

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