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
way kind screenwriting
I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.
drama writing skills
Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.
men tickets murder
Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.
people judgment
The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.
stars war pretentious
I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.
quality fields directors
Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.
movie inspiring film
Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.
movie gambling today
Everybody's a filmmaker today.
thinking want directors
A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it.
people question ready
The big question is, are people ready to take that step? They're very comfortable with their cars,