66 Quotes by Sam Raimi

When you make the audience the critic, though, when you start asking them to speak about the film, all these weird moments that are way out of the ordinary, that we do a lot of in our pictures, they don't hold up to critical analysis from an untrained professional critic very well.

It seemed like in the States, you could make a cheap movie if it was a horror movie, and it could look crumby without production value and still be effective for a sale, the audience would still be frightened by it and they wouldn't react badly to its cheap quality. So that's why we made a horror movie.

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

It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.

I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.

Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.

Nowadays everyone's got the nose rings and the colored hair, so for me to wear the suit and tie is a different way to go.

Every filmmaker knows that when you make a book into a movie, the first thing you have to do is kill the book, unfortunately. You've got to recreate it.

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.