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33 quotes by John Sayles

John Sayles John Sayles, March 2008 Born John Thomas Sayles (1950-09-28) September 28, 1950 (age 64) Schenectady, New York, U.S. Occupation Director, screenwriter Years active 1978–present John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950) is an American independent film director, screenwriter, editor, actor and author. He has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Passion Fish (1992) and Lone Star (1996).
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Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He... →

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But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once, and there were 50,000 guys with boots that I... →

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Fahrenheit 9/11 took public domain information that should have been on the news every night and put it in a film that a lot of people went to see.... →

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For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on... →

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I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead... →

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I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a... →

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I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall... →

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I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget... →

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I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do... →

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In a movie you have all these logistical problems; all these practical problems. But you're also going to have people come who can do things that... →

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My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy... →

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Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've... →

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The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you're playing a character who changes within the movie, you've got to do that, but... →

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