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" How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly? "
Man
Actor
Convince
" If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world. "
Progress
Talent
Opportunity
" I had life threats, because people accused me of approaching Brando as God and his son was Jesus. I literally had people saying my blood would run in the streets for doing that. "
Life
God
People
" I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective. "
Open
Because
Been
" In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor. "
Rules
Pictures
Motion
" I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses. "
Could
Motion
Pictures
" I think what some people are doing with effects is starting to get silly. It's overused. "
People
Doing
Think
" It's developing a relationship with actors that makes it work. "
Developing
Relationship
Makes
" It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking. "
Hurt
Moment
Life
" It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing? "
Book
Superman
Thinking
" It was just the thrill of a lifetime. Brando and Hackman were two of my heroes. "
Lifetime
Just
Heroes
" It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important. "
Time
Kind
School
" I've always wanted to do a Crichton book. I really love his writing. "
Book
His
Love
" I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor. "
Trying
Least
Actor
" I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries. "
Doing
Painting
Truck
" I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman. "
Superman
Me
Filmmaking
" I was tweaked by the idea of Superman immediately. "
Immediately
Superman
Idea
" I was very lucky. I started my own commercial company. "
My Own
Lucky
Company
" People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It's always been a great trip. "
Say
Always
Great
" Soon it's all going to be digital anyway. It's all going to be saved on a little coin somewhere. "
Going
Coin
Digital
" Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film. "
Trust
Superman
Never
" That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you. "
Get
You
Trust
" When I was doing half-hour shows, I loved it and was preparing myself for the hour shows. Then when I did the hour shows, I was preparing myself for the specials and features. "
Doing
Then
Myself
" When when my first feature opportunity came along, I wasn't prepared, but we did it in about 17 days. "
Along
Opportunity
Did
" When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work. "
Film
Audience
Long
" With The Omen, I really felt I wasn't in control. It was panic. "
Panic
Control
Omen
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