Sam Raimi Quotes

My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that.

Sam Raimi

• People
• Father
• Respect

As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.

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• Great
• Film
• Adventure

I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give them as much energy as they're willing to give to the picture.

Sam Raimi

• Great
• Movie
• Energy

You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures.

Sam Raimi

• Mother
• Know
• Brother

That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.

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• Good
• Way
• Heroic

I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.

Sam Raimi

• Work
• Want
• Like

I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.

Sam Raimi

• Team
• Always
• Movies

Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.

Sam Raimi

• Opportunity
• Me
• Learning

I didn’t at first because horror movies scared me too much, but I really do love the genre and it’s a playground where you can really be artistic and create ideas in the minds of the audience and portray the unreal. It’s very cool experimentation ground for a filmmaker.

Sam Raimi

• Cool