Quotes from Sam Raimi

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

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

I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.

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 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.

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

When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.

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.

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