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.
From Richard Donner
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.
I was tweaked by the idea of Superman immediately.
I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.
In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.
How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?
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.
People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It's always been a great trip.
That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you.
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.
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