John Milius Quotes & Sayings
26 most famous John Milius quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's an 80 year old American director born on Apr 28, 1944.
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.”
“Matter of fact, the style that people use today, I invented in a way.”
“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.”
“Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.”
“Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.”
“I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce.”
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