Richard Donner

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

#approaching #because #blood #brando #doing

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

— Richard Donner

#geniuses #i #motion #motion pictures #pictures

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

— Richard Donner

#effects #get #i #i think #overused

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

— Richard Donner

#i #least #trying

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

#commercials #documentaries #doing #drive #driving

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

#bros #disappointed #enough #film #filmmaking

I was tweaked by the idea of Superman immediately. ↗

— Richard Donner

#idea #immediately #superman

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

— Richard Donner

#company #i #lucky #my own #own

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

— Richard Donner

#been #comments #i #narrow #objective

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

— Richard Donner

#convince #could #fly #going #how