Joel Schumacher - biography

“We deserved it.  I mean, if you get a pummeling, you deserved it.  But isn’t it wonderful to remember a time that America was once so innocent that all we had to worry about was the next ‘Batman’ movie?”

“In my naivety, I handed in a screenplay for ‘Sparkle’ that was over 300 pages long.  When I asked, ‘Howda like the story?’ - the answer was: ‘Which one?’”

“Don’t you hear people saying things you can’t believe they’re saying?”

“I don’t want to tell your story because you’re a insensitive, self-centered moron.  I’ve told a lot of stories about young people, and I always feel there’s hope.”

“So we got there at 6 a.m.  We’d be shooting by 6:45.  We wouldn’t break for lunch, we’d just pass food around all day.  And we would just rock and roll ‘til 4, then Matty Libatique, our great cinematographer, would say, ‘Outta light, guys’ - and that was it.”

Joel Schumacher directed the following films:
The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)
D.C. Cab (1983)
St. Elmo’s Fire (1985)
The Lost Boys (1987)
Flatliners (1990)
Dying Young (1991)
Falling Down (1993)
The Client (1994)
Batman Forever (1995)
A Time to Kill (1996)
Batman and Robin (1997)
8MM (1999)
Flawless (1999)
Tigerland (2000)
Bad Company (2002)
Phone Booth (2002)
Veronica Guerin (2003)
The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
The Number 23 (2007)
Town Creek (2009)
Twelve (2010)
Trespass (2011)


Joel Schumacher contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
The Wiz (1978)
D.C. Cab (1983)
St. Elmo’s Fire (1985)
8MM (1999)
Flawless (1999)
Phone Booth (2002)
The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
The Number 23 (2007)