Sam Raimi Quotes

Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.

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

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.

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

R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.

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

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

The domination of one's spirit and mind is not a pretty thing, but I think it happens.

Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.

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.

Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's one option for all filmmakers making a horror film and it's not something I've found myself above either.

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.

I used to get headaches in 3D movies, and I didn't want the movie to give people headaches.

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.

Rob [Tapert], myself and Bruce Campbell sat in hundreds of drive-insnot hundreds, but tens of drive-ins, watching these movies and learning how they were made, and we started to make our own in Super 8. And that's really how we got into horror films. After a while we learned to really like them, and the craft that went into them.

Some movies to me are like vampires - they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.

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.

My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that.

That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.

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

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