Neil N. LaBute (born March 19, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter and playwright. Read full biography of Neil LaBute →
I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis.
People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape.
We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.
Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.
I wanted to make these people real, not like they were in a painting. Like these are people who don't know they're in a period movie. Those... →
Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and... →
My business is can I create a world that's possible and could happen? I think that's the only thing that I have to do, and I think that I... →
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... →