John Milius
John Milius
John Frederick Miliusis an American screenwriter, director, and producer of motion pictures. He was one of the writers for the first two Dirty Harry films, received an Academy Award nomination as screenwriter of Apocalypse Now, and wrote and directed The Wind and the Lion, Conan the Barbarian and Red Dawn...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth11 April 1944
CountryUnited States of America
hollywood barbarians
I'm the barbarian of Hollywood.
divorce wife apocalypse
I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce.
writing skills people
Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.
writing able
I've always been able to survive by writing, though.
integrity men live-your-life
I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and keep the artistic integrity of your work intact, but they don't make it very easy to live your life.
comeback born storyteller
No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.
being-strong courage simple
To be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.
civilization people threat
A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.
mean strange made
You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for - are now looked at as classics.
want darling critics
I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.
levels filmmaker
The filmmakers always have a great level of control.
trouble authority
I've always had trouble with authority.
american-director bucks hit million relatively
Yeah, there's absolutely. I mean, remember when The Searchers came out, it was a relatively big hit for a Western, and I think it made 5 million bucks - I don't even think it made that.
american-director became degree lasted popular time truth
Yeah, I think that's it... It's like Jesse James. He became really popular because he lasted so long. You know, there is some degree of truth to the fact that time will dignify anything, too.