The 40+ Neil LaBute Quotes

You Start As An Audience Member And Create A World You're Interested In, And Then You Move Into The Telling Of Those Stories, Bringing What Has Interested You As An Audience Member.

Relationships In General Make People A Bit Nervous. It's About Trust. Do I Trust You Enough To Go There?

People Have Perhaps Gotten To The Point Where For The Most Part Movies Are A Just Bit Of Escape.

I Would Be More Frightened As A Writer If People Thought My Movies Were Like Science Fiction.

I Wanted To Tell A Story That Interested Me As Much In The Telling As In The Watching.

I Felt, If I'm Going To Take On Some Of The Most Overdone Material, Which Is Men And Women And Affairs And Betrayal Of Friends, I Had Better Have A New Take On It. I Think My Films Come From A Desperation Not To Be Boring.

I Will Say That The Idea Of A Woman Being Deceptive Came From That Original Discussion With Critics And Reporters About If Woman Could Do That Kind Of Thing. Evelyn, Herself, Grew Out Of The Discussions About How Capable Women Are Of Deceit And Lying And Manipulation.

And I've Got Some Screenplays And Plays Ready To Dip Into When I Need To.

I Make Movies I Want To See.

I Was Always Looking For The Most Dramatic Emphasis. One Example Would Be The Letter Writing, Or The Reading Of The Letters. If You Remember From The Book, They Find The Letters And Then In The Most Undramatic Way They Take Them Downstairs, They Get Approval, They Sit At A Table During The Day With Their Own Author, Across From Each Other.

I Was Very Careful To Cast Guys Who Were Very Good-looking And Very Fit And Who Had A Certain Sense Of Privilege About Them, Because With That Sense Of Privilege Comes Contempt.

I Think The More The Actor Lets You Know What He Thinks Of The Character, The Less The Audience Cares - Like A Comedian Who Laughs At His Own Jokes.