John Landis Quotes

I have always loved you.

I've been all over the world, and to be in Milan and see guys dressed as Jake and Elwood is amazing. They really have become a part of the culture.

I grew up thinking of snow as a luxury you visit.

But what's interesting is now - and not only in horror, but across the board - the studios basically only make B pictures with A budgets. That's the biggest difference.

You always want to do something different. I enjoy the process. I like making movies, and it's increasingly hard to find a movie you'd want to make.

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

The wonder of imagination is this: It has the power to light its own fire.

Directors, like actors, get typecast.

In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.

Movies are brand new. Film is less than 150 years old. It's brand new, compared to any other art form, all of which are thousands of years old.

There have been 14 versions that I can find of Burke & Hare movies. They have all been horror films and all the movies have taken place in Victorian times, which doesn't make any sense.

The pedigree's pretty high. For people who are really scary movie fans, this is nirvana. If you're in the mood to get scared, just watch this every week. It'll creep you out.

I would very much like to make Westerns. I love Westerns. I've worked on many Westerns in my youth, in Spain and here, and I love working on them.

I'm following a real event and real people.

Gain control of your time, and you will gain control of your life.

After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly.

Indifference, lukewarmness, and neutrality are always attached to failure.

When you're good at making excuses, it's hard to excel at anything else.

Quite honestly, ... there's never been stunt driving before or after as spectacular or elaborate. That's all real, no (computer trickery).

One of the challenges of the movie is there are no apologies or excuses.

Never take direction for your personal life from a crowd.

The field (of filmmaking) is suddenly sexy, ... so it's deluged with these wannabes who say 'I don't want to be a secret agent, I'll be a filmmaker.' I think a lot of people are really kind of naive.

Directors, like actors, get typecast. And because I've had great success with comedy and horror and TV shows, that's basically what I'm kind of offered.

For some reason, people think of me as someone who can do anything I want. And I'm not. You know, I need someone to put up the money.

Universal rushed us. We started shooting without a script that was totally completed.

Rock 'n' roll started to make so much money and generated so much income for the record companies that suddenly it was no longer evil.