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Richard Donner

"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."

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"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."

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"When you've been driving in the top category for 10 years, you're obviously not a kid any more. You know, I'm married now and I've got two kids. That let's you know you're getting older."

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"You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either."

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"As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio."

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"This would not be a problem if I were driving a snowplow."

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"The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility."

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"I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting."

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"I quit driving, I'm not retired."

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"It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous!"

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"I was lonely driving here tonight so I hugged the road."

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"I grew up at 16 years old driving trucks across the George Washington Bridge."

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"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."
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"I've always wanted to do a Crichton book. I really love his writing."
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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?"
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"I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective."
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"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?"
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"That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you."
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"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."
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"Some actors just won't bend, and then it's a bitch. You either fight or find ways of putting your words in their mouth and letting them say it back at you."
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"When when my first feature opportunity came along, I wasn't prepared, but we did it in about 17 days."
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"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."
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