Raimi Quotes

#1. I think if you look at Sam Raimi and Jim Cameron, those guys know things about filmmaking that almost nobody knows anymore. They are students of film from when they handmade films themselves, you know cut films with their own hands and razor blades and tape.

Dileep Rao

#2. Clearly, the works of John Carpenter and Sam Raimi are front and center here. Argento is definitely there. But even stuff like the 'Friday the 13th' movies had quite an influence on me growing up.

Drew Goddard

#3. As a kid, my idols were Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson, and I get into crazy races with myself. Raimi was 21 when he made movies, and when I didn't get 'Cabin Fever' made that fast I thought I'd failed.

Eli Roth

#4. I never met Sam Raimi in my whole life.

Jane Levy

#5. A true dreamer must be prepared to make any sacrifice for his dream. Even if it means sacrificing himself. The dream must be everything. (The Cardinal to Capac Raimi)

Darren Shan

#6. I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

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#7. I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.

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#8. I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.

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#9. I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.

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#10. Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.

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#11. I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.

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

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

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#14. R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.

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#15. 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.

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#16. If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.

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#17. 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.

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#18. I love cats. I've had cats as pets.

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#19. 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.

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#20. I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that I had a fascination with things coming out of people's mouths.

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

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#22. 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.

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#23. I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.

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#24. 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.

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#25. The domination of one's spirit and mind is not a pretty thing, but I think it happens.

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#26. Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.

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#27. 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.

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#28. I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.

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#29. I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.

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#30. 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.

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#31. 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.

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#32. I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.

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#33. I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.

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#34. Go ahead and run! Run home and cry to mama!

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#35. I used to get headaches in 3D movies, and I didn't want the movie to give people headaches.

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#36. That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.

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#37. Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.

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#38. 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.

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#39. 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.

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#40. 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.

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#41. I've always loved ... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I only liked comedies and dramas.

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