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I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

John Milius

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John Milius
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: April 11
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Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
St. Louis
Missouri
John Frederick Milius
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I've always had trouble with authority.
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Everybody's a filmmaker today.
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A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it.
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There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave.
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I also thought of myself as the Sonny Barger of the film industry.
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I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.
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Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.
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I'm the barbarian of Hollywood.
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A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.
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Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.
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Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.
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Matter of fact, the style that people use today, I invented in a way.
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I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.
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