44 Quotes by Richard Donner

It was just the thrill of a lifetime. Brando and Hackman were two of my heroes.

I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries.

People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It's always been a great trip.

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

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.

How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?

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

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

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.