John Milius Quotes
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I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.
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I've always been able to survive by writing, though.
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I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.
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Matter of fact, the style that people use today, I invented in a way.
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Everybody's a filmmaker today.
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I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce.
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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.
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No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.
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A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.
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Yeah, there's absolutely. I mean, remember when The Searchers came out, it was a relatively big hit for a Western, and I think it made 5 million bucks - I don't even think it made that.
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I've always had trouble with authority.
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Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.
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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.
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You never know when you're going to be considered un-hip... The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.
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Yeah, I think that's it... It's like Jesse James. He became really popular because he lasted so long. You know, there is some degree of truth to the fact that time will dignify anything, too.
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You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for - are now looked at as classics.
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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.
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The filmmakers always have a great level of control.
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Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.
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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.
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'm a general, I do something. I go out and fight wars and win them.
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I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.
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Most artists think they're frauds anyway.
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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.