Sam Raimi Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.

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.

Every picture has been a learning opportunity 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 had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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