Top 27 Quotes by Richard Donner

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

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.

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

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

When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work.

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

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.

It's developing a relationship with actors that makes it work.

Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film.

Soon it's all going to be digital anyway. It's all going to be saved on a little coin somewhere.