James Schamus famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There seems to be one way to continue in that virtuous resolution; and perhaps but one. Never enter the place from whence so few have been able to return; never come within the circle of ambition; nor ever bring yourself into comparison with those masters of the earth who have already engrossed the attention of half mankind before you.
Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.
Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
It's not the kind of tuna that I eat.
A film has its own life and takes its own time.
Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.
My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.
I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.

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