Sam Raimi
Related KIRK HAMMETT In Europe, there is no horror movie. It's very hard to make a slasher or gory movie. There is no... ALEXANDRE AJA ROB BELL ARTHUR MILLER ALFRED HITCHCOCK SHANLEY CASWELL ALFRED HITCHCOCK BILL GATES LYNDA BARRY We're really big horror movie fans too, ... And we always wanted to film a horror movie called 'Camp... BAM MARGERA I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give the... SAM RAIMI CHRISTINA ENGELA WES CRAVEN For me, the reason to make the movie is that if people like the comic, then people would like the mo... GILBERT HERNANDEZ RYū MURAKAMI I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I like horror movies, they're fun. It was the most fun I've had on a movie set. CLEA DUVALL ALAN ARKIN A good horror movie - it doesn't matter how many comedy horror films there have been before. Doe... FEDE ALVAREZ KIRK HAMMETT is not your typical horror or slasher movie. It's meant to be a thriller with an edge and a lesson t... JARED PADALECKI I love horror movies. It's so fun being absolutely terrified. It's damn hard to shoot, thoug... MAIKA MONROE When I was seven or eight, I was bought a fantastic book called 'The Movie Treasury of Horror Mo... MARK GATISS When it comes to actually showing exactly what's going on, there's just nothing like a movie. You ca... PATRICK HARTIGAN JAMES WAN I love horror movies. I mean, who doesn't like a good horror movie every once in a while? It'... TARA REID I think Alone in the Dark was too much an action creature movie than a horror creature movie. UWE BOLL Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so ... BARRY LEVINSON I love 'Child's Play 2!' I love Don Mancini. That movie has a great theme: You better li... BETH GRANT ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I think the movie could be completely made without nudity, but the nudity makes it marketable. JON GORMAN CATHERINE HARDWICKE THE WEEKND Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so ... BARRY LEVINSON JOHN CARPENTER 'Shall We Dance?' takes a small, exquisite Japanese movie and turns it into a big, stupid Am... STEPHEN HUNTER I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie. ROB ZOMBIE DEBASISH MRIDHA CLIVE OWEN I wanted this to be a movie on TV so I could press the off button and make it all go away. MICHELLE ROWEN When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide ... OLIVIER MEGATON DANIEL CRAIG EDDIE MURPHY I was looking for a movie where I wasn't the lead in it and a movie where I could go in and work wit... ASHLEE SIMPSON We went through all the scenes and they became kind of funny and they expanded a little bit and beca... EUGENE LEVY The Sound of Music was just such an honour to be in, because it was a movie that appeals to so many ... ANGELA CARTWRIGHT NEIL GAIMAN I laugh a lot in horror films. If I'm scared in a horror film, I try to think about what's s... JASON REITMAN IVAN REITMAN On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going a... AVI ARAD If actors could actually make a living doing theater, that would be my first choice. Sitcoms are the... ENRICO COLANTONI JAMES WOLCOTT JEFFREY KATZENBERG I always tell clients you have to be able to remember why you chose to do a movie: to always be able... BRYAN LOURD You make a movie and you'd like it to be appreciated, respected, embraced. BENNETT MILLER ANONYMOUS ANNETTE BENING GERMANY KENT I was going to make him proud of the man I would become. I was finally going to chart my own course,... EMORY R. FRIE The scariest movie I have ever seen, and my favorite horror film is, 'The Exorcist.' It is a... KEEGAN ALLEN It was a really Hollywood production and the movie itself reflects that. ED NOONAN 'Elizabethtown' was a movie made for all the right reasons, and people who connect with the ... CAMERON CROWE TOM HANKS DREW GODDARD Everyday people all over the world take advantage of life, they abuse it and dice with it.Life is so... GARY F EVANS... AMIT KALANTRI The horror movie will not go away. Look at the change in the Hollywood landscape as a signifier of i... STEPHEN HUNTER JOEL EDGERTON I'm in. It was prom, the whole thing is like a movie, so making it into a movie ... it was like the ... BEN ADRIAN MARQUIS DE SADE There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, ... KEENEN IVORY WAYANS When we made the movie, we never thought it would have another life of its own down the line. I was ... GINGER STANLEY KELLY ROWLAND There are certain rules one must abide by in order to succesfully survive a horror movie. JAMIE KENNEDY Do not be afraid of failure, it is part of the learning process SOTONYE ANGA I'm not really a horror movie fan. DAN SCANLON It's still not cheap and you can only do it for a small amount of time and without travel it is stil... KYLE DAVIES It is a pro-U.N. movie. It's a pro-American movie. It's a pro-American movie. It's a mov... SCOTT RITTER SAMANTHA YOUNG You silly," said Abdul, "those clouds don' mean nothing. I see'd them plenty a'ready. It was jus' co... THEO ENGELA RICHIE NORTON There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie. Sometimes the splash happens, like... JON FAVREAU TONI COLLETTE To stand on theASK AND IT IS GIVEN ELI ROTH Hopefully, when people see 'Senna', they will understand why this inspirational story needed... ASIF KAPADIA It's easy to see why 'American Horror' is freaking people out. The ultraviolent hallucin... ROB SHEFFIELD IVAN REITMAN I made a movie to explain to the American public what had been achieved in regards to disarmament of... SCOTT RITTER All these horror movies are slasher film now. I like them, they're fun, but they wink at the aud... GINA PHILIPS Constantine cursed the faujis again, and then he cursed Tom Cruise for having made that bloody Top G... OMAR SHAHID HAMID GEORGE TILLMAN, JR. CHANDLER RIGGS I've never done a horror movie, like a full-on gore slasher film. ASA BUTTERFIELD DEYTH BANGER DENIS LEARY WILLIAM MCKINLEY I'm a huge horror movie fan. Beyond belief. ABIGAIL BRESLIN It's going to be a horror movie, and it's going to be scary. I don't want to pretend in any way that... JOSH TOWNSEND It was actually the movie 'Rushmore' that made me first realize that I could try writing, bu... ANDERS HOLM
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I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to fil... SAM RAIMI Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic bo... SAM RAIMI Some movies to me are like vampires - they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like tha... SAM RAIMI R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts. SAM RAIMI I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan makin... SAM RAIMI I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that ... SAM RAIMI My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never... SAM RAIMI I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise. SAM RAIMI Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's ... SAM RAIMI It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot. SAM RAIMI As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I ... SAM RAIMI I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give the... SAM RAIMI I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me. SAM RAIMI I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately wit... SAM RAIMI I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I reall... SAM RAIMI I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me the... SAM RAIMI I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just tr... SAM RAIMI I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her gr... SAM RAIMI You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes ... SAM RAIMI I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were an... SAM RAIMI Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me. SAM RAIMI That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are ca... SAM RAIMI If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original. SAM RAIMI I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construct... SAM RAIMI When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the... SAM RAIMI I love cats. I've had cats as pets. SAM RAIMI [Beginning at 2 p.m., fans were treated to a horror-film convention, including collectibles for sale... SAM RAIMI I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my act... SAM RAIMI I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that ... SAM RAIMI Nowadays everyone's got the nose rings and the colored hair, so for me to wear the suit and tie is a... SAM RAIMI When you make the audience the critic, though, when you start asking them to speak about the film, a... SAM RAIMI That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capabl... SAM RAIMI I said to my agent, 'Is there any way I can get on the list to direct this thing? SAM RAIMI I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound. SAM RAIMI My heart only beats for you but you never listen it SAM You want to be happy? you should first learn how to let it go SAM SAM KEAN SAM WALTON SAM YAGAN SAM HOUSTON SAM KEEN SAM KEEN SAM LEVENSON SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN The Price Is Right can really get me going. SAM PECKINPAH Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee. SAM PECKINPAH Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists. SAM PECKINPAH Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love. SAM PECKINPAH The end of a picture is always an end of a life. SAM PECKINPAH Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kin... SAM PALLADIO My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never... SAM PALLADIO As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of ... SAM PALLADIO I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value! SAM PALLADIO If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you'... SAM PALLADIO Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy. SAM NEILL 'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that. SAM NEILL I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'... SAM NEILL I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat co... SAM NEILL I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love... SAM NEILL As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job. SAM NEILL When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the gr... SAM NEILL I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. T... SAM NEILL If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertain... SAM NEILL I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not wi... SAM NEILL When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting. SAM NEILL Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work. SAM NEILL People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things. SAM NEILL I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, i... SAM NEILL I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go. SAM NEILL I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character. SAM NEILL I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard a... SAM NEILL No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down. SAM NEILL Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to ... SAM MENDES It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thi... SAM MENDES For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie. SAM MENDES One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working wi... SAM MENDES I've made movies that cost less than one car chase. SAM MENDES Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that. SAM MENDES Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets o... SAM MENDES I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is differe... SAM MENDES You think about taking audiences on a journey. SAM MENDES If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything. SAM MENDES I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I ... SAM MENDES One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films. SAM MENDES All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which... SAM MENDES Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces. SAM MENDES The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words. SAM MENDES You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all. SAM MENDES I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big m... SAM MENDES There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. Th... SAM MENDES The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts... SAM MENDES You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes,... SAM MENDES I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it. SAM MENDES The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - w... SAM MENDES I don't think good and evil are polarized. SAM MENDES I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is... SAM MENDES It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. Bu... SAM MENDES I want to inspire, and be inspired. 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SAM HUNTINGTON You get to a place where you do your job, and then you dust your hands off and say, 'Okay, my jo... SAM HUNTINGTON My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little b... SAM HUNTINGTON In all seriousness, I'm flattered and humbled to have been asked to reprise my role as Luke in t... SAM HUNTINGTON I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I w... SAM HUNTINGTON I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the ... SAM HUNTINGTON SAM HUNT SAM HUNT SAM HUNT SAM HUNT SAM HUNT SAM HUNT SAM HUNT SAM HUNT SAM HUNT SAM HUNT SAM HUNT SAM HUNT SAM HUNT SAM HUNT SAM HUNT SAM HUNT SAM HUNT SAM HUNT SAM HUNT SAM HUNT SAM HUNT SAM HUNT SAM HUNT SAM HUNT SAM HOUSTON SAM HOUSTON SAM HOUSTON
A good horror movie should have peaks and valleys, a good horror movie should move you emotionally; ... 
It is possible for music to be labeled "Christian" and be terrible music. It could lack creativity a... 
It is a lie. 
If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear... 
I wouldn't exactly describe 'Detention' as a horror movie. I mean, it does have horror e... 
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Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stu... 
Part of a horror movie has to be a bit fakey for me to really enjoy it. The new ones are so realisti... 
For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... 
The audience that would see that movie, by and large, doesn't go to see horror films, ... It was a g... 
People who love horror films are people with boring lives... when a really scary movie is over, you'... 
I would like to have a movie under my own control sometime, and see what could be done with it. Who ... 
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There are so many things we do in life that define the real meaning of our lives. There are so many ... 
You have a big success, and it's still not easy to make a movie. 
'Kiss Land' is like a horror movie. 
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If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. 
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We're making a movie, and I think we're making a really good movie. When it comes out, if they still... 
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It's a thrill because the movie was made for love. We did it because we thought it could be very spe... 
Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... 
There was nothing to react to except wind and trees [in Cast Away]. It was like making a silent movi... 
A movie that's about other horror movies isn't interesting. A movie about who we are, is. 
Audience can live without a movie but a movie cannot live without an audience. 
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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate... 
I ain't gonna get this, it's a horror movie, it's hard to act scared. 
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My dad was on 'Zombieland,' and I love that movie. So yeah, I think I like the horror genre! 
Nowadays, it's hard to find the best horror and to be interesting and to be afraid of it! 
The first movie I saw where it convinced me I could be an actor was 'Mean Streets,' so whene... 
I do not prize the word "cheap." It is not a badge of honor. It is a symbol of despair. Cheap prices... 
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. 
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Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. 
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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what... 
The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart. 
You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too. 
I'm so tired of men who are afraid to hurt women's feelings. 
Everything can be satirized. 
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. 
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I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really di... 
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and... 