Sam Raimi Quotes

I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.
Sam Raimi

Dreams, Future, Mother

I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.
Sam Raimi

Why, Interested, Maybe

Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
Sam Raimi

Time, Book, Makes

As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.
Sam Raimi

Great, Making, Film

Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.
Sam Raimi

Learning, Picture

I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.
Sam Raimi

Movies, Real, Serial

I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.
Sam Raimi

Work, Put, Show

I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it.
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Funny, Character, Different

I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give them as much energy as they're willing to give to the picture.
Sam Raimi

Great, Give, Energy

I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
Sam Raimi

Best, Ask, Soon

I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me there are birds in the neighbourhood.
Sam Raimi

Good, Front, Telling

I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
Sam Raimi

Love, Cats, Pets

I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
Sam Raimi

Movies, Another, Film

I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
Sam Raimi

Everything, Done, Made

I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
Sam Raimi

Movies, Lost, Sound

I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that I had a fascination with things coming out of people's mouths.
Sam Raimi

Help, Said, She

I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.
Sam Raimi

Love, Getting, Though

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.
Sam Raimi

Place, Film, Interested

I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.
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Heard, Praise, Twice

I've always loved... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I only liked comedies and dramas.
Sam Raimi

Love, Loved, Actually

I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
Sam Raimi

Movies, Made, Making

I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.
Sam Raimi

Movies, Team, Making

If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.
Sam Raimi

Good, Hurt, Again

It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.
Sam Raimi

Fun, Learn, Lovely

Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
Sam Raimi

Money, Wonderful, Worlds

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Nationality: American

Born: October 23, 1959

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