John Milius - Best Quotes

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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In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Author: John Milius

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.

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

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.

Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about – courage.