Words matter. These are the best Sam Raimi Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn’t hurt the original.
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.
I’ve always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
That’s what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.
R is for wussies if you’re talking about blood and guts.
Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.
I don’t like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it’s too real and unpleasant for me.
I’ve always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.
I like a good mono track, it’s right up front. I don’t need all the surrounds telling me there are birds in the neighbourhood.
I love cats. I’ve had cats as pets.
When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.
I’m too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I’m getting to do something I love.
Well it’s always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that’s one option for all filmmakers making a horror film and it’s not something I’ve found myself above either.
Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don’t like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.
I’ve always been interested in the camera and the effects of it – that’s what drew me to film in the first place.
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.
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.
I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
I don’t like shows, I don’t like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.
I don’t really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I’ve seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it.
My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I’ve never forgotten that.
