Neil N. LaBute (born March 19, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter and playwright. Read full biography of Neil LaBute →
Everyone has a little bit of Howard and Chad in them. I think there's Christine in all men as well.
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.
I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.
I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.
But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him... →
But for me, it feels like a natural extension of what I've been doing: exploring relationships. Here you have two relationships and we can... →
There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church... →
With In the Company of Men, the misogynist label stuck early and firmly. In the end, it probably did hurt the film a bit, because getting women into... →
I think Christine and Chad are on the opposite extremes of the spectrum. Christine is a model victim, and Chad is a model perpetrator, and Howard is... →
Everyone has a story.
I didn't choose BYU, I like to think it chose me.
I have a healthy view of what one can do with art.
I see bits and pieces of me in all the characters in my films.
Neil N. LaBute (born March 19, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter and playwright.