I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.
I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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.
Nowadays everyone's got the nose rings and the colored hair, so for me to wear the suit and tie is a different way to go.
That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.
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.
A fat stomach sticks out too far. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you.
An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.
There are times when it is more courageous to be cowardly.
Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.
The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.
I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.
Sam was born on the same day as performer "Weird Al" Yankovic.
During the mid-80s, Sam used to live in an apartment with actor Bruce Campbell, writer/director Scott Spiegel, writer/director Joel Coen, writer/producer Ethan Coen and actresses Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand and Kathy Bates.
Sam attended Michigan State University in East Lansing MI, as an English major.
Sam has been married to actress Gillian Greene since 1993.
Sam used the pseudonym "R.O.C. Sandstorm" for his editing work on his film Army of Darkness (1993). This same pseudonym was also used by Sam's friend and favorite actor Bruce Campbell when he wrote the screenplay for the 1992 film The Nutt House (1992).
Sam is an avid comic book collector. This played a large part in his desire to direct the Spider-Man films, and is one of the reasons that Marvel Comics wanted him to get the job.
Sam's car, a yellow 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88, has appeared onscreen in all of his films with the obvious exception of The Quick and the Dead (1995). Although Bruce Campbell has stated that the chassis for the car was used in one of the wagons for the movie.
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