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 ski…

- John Milius

You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for - are now looked at as class…

- John Milius

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

- John Milius

The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.

- John Milius

I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.

- John Milius

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

- John Milius

I may not be the strongest guy or the most well armed, but you can put me in a room with a pencil and a piece of paper and I can kill anybody.

- John Milius

I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and kee…

- John Milius

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

- John Milius