44 Quotes by Richard Donner

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

That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you.

They prepared Superman for a year, and they had the guy flying on a flat board with four wires. What were the challenges? Endless.

They're a couple of galloping horses, and they were just wonderful and all. You had to pull them back every once in a while and that was about it.

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

I had to physically convince the audience that he could fly but, just as important, I had to convince the audience that that man who was playing that role could fly. And I could not believe that Redford or Newman or any of those well-known actors in that role, in blue leotards and a red cape, flying.

The Lethals were never done as a special edition, but that's still a few years away. I'd love to do director's cuts of all four of them.

VERISIMILITUDE (the appearance or semblance of truth)

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