“I was never conscious of my screenplays having any acts. It's all bullshit.”
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Famous John Milius Quotes
“Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.”
“I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce.”
“A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.”
“I also thought of myself as the Sonny Barger of the film industry.”
“I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.”
“I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.”
“Matter of fact, the style that people use today, I invented in a way.”
“The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.”
“No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.”
“Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.”
