Richard Donner Quotes

• Working with Christopher, he convinced me he could fly, and he’s convinced me he’s going to walk again.

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• With The Omen, I really felt I wasn’t in control. It was panic.

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• When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you’re narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn’t work.

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• When when my first feature opportunity came along, I wasn’t prepared, but we did it in about 17 days.

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• When I was doing half-hour shows, I loved it and was preparing myself for the hour shows. Then when I did the hour shows, I was preparing myself for the specials and features.

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• That’s how you get a performance – they put trust in you.

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• Superman was never previewed because the producers didn’t trust Warners with the film.

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

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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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.

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• 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.

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

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• I was tweaked by the idea of Superman immediately.

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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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