John Milius

Everybody's a filmmaker today. ↗

— John Milius

#everybody #filmmaker #today

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. ↗

— John Milius

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A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization. ↗

— John Milius

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Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language. ↗

— John Milius

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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. ↗

— John Milius

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I also thought of myself as the Sonny Barger of the film industry. ↗

— John Milius

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I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden. ↗

— John Milius

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I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways. ↗

— John Milius

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I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce. ↗

— John Milius

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Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker. ↗

— John Milius

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