Sam Raimi
Sam Raimi
Samuel M "Sam" Raimiis an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor, famous for creating the cult horror Evil Dead series, as well as directing the original Spider-Man trilogyand the 1990 superhero film Darkman. His most recent work is 2013's Disney fantasy film Oz the Great and Powerful...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth23 October 1959
CityRoyal Oak, MI
CountryUnited States of America
students film i-realized
I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
book firsts filmmaker
Every filmmaker knows that when you make a book into a movie, the first thing you have to do is kill the book, unfortunately. You've got to recreate it.
adventure saws film
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.
crafts film horror
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.
firsts cameras film
I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.
analysis asking audience critical hold moments speak start untrained weird
When you make the audience the critic, though, when you start asking them to speak about the film, all these weird moments that are way out of the ordinary, that we do a lot of in our pictures, they don't hold up to critical analysis from an untrained professional critic very well.
audience badly cheap effective frightened horror production react seemed value
It seemed like in the States, you could make a cheap movie if it was a horror movie, and it could look crumby without production value and still be effective for a sale, the audience would still be frightened by it and they wouldn't react badly to its cheap quality. So that's why we made a horror movie.
direct list
I said to my agent, 'Is there any way I can get on the list to direct this thing?
american-director
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.
movies suck vampires
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.
book thinking way
Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
father people dresses
My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that.
fun lovely producers
It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.
made audience ifs
I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.