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.
Richard Donner

I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor.
Richard Donner

It's developing a relationship with actors that makes it work.
Richard Donner

That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you.
Richard Donner

People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It's always been a great trip.
Richard Donner

I was very lucky. I started my own commercial company.
Richard Donner

First cuts are a bitch for a director, because it's been so many months and you put your trust in your editor and you're going to see your film assembled for the first time. You look at it and go, This is terrible. I hate it.
Richard Donner

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?
Richard Donner