Sam Raimi Quotes

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 realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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.
That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.
Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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.
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 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.
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 had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
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 like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.
I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
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.
I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.
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.
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.
It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.
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