Sometimes people can't afford to work for you, or they're not interested or available, and you hate to have written the whole… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about movies is doing take 12, 13, and 14, and finding new ways to do the same lines. So… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day. — John Sayles Copy Share Image
For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
There are genres I don't care for, and I've never worked in those genres, and then sometimes there are people that I… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you're playing a character who changes within the movie, you've got to do… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
We just said, 'Okay, you're in the movie. Bring what you would bring for a three-day weekend and I hope you like… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
There are very few distributors left to do off-Hollywood movies, and those distributors generally have got thousands of movies to choose from.… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
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… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
As a screenwriter I'm often writing in genres where there have been thousands of movies; whereas when I direct movies they tend… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
When I read a story or see something play out in front of me I say, how come nobody's made a movie… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, How can you make a movie during an election that's… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
In a movie you have all these logistical problems; all these practical problems. But you're also going to have people come who… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once, and there… — John Sayles Copy Share
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… — John Sayles Copy Share
I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you… — John Sayles Copy Share
I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to… — John Sayles Copy Share
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… — John Sayles Copy Share
To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when… — John Sayles Copy Share
And it was out in the theaters in two weeks. This is not, 'We're going to develop twenty-five and maybe one's going to get… — John Sayles Copy Share
You get to say, 'Here's my philosophical idea about what the costume should like,' and the costume designer comes and gives you choices and… — John Sayles Copy Share
“There is great literature about imprisonment, . . . about the foot soldier, . . . about the sea -- but not one great work about flying.” — John Sayles Copy Share
Sometimes people can't afford to work for you, or they're not interested or available, and you hate to have written the whole movie with… — John Sayles Copy Share
I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you… — John Sayles Copy Share
When I read a story or see something play out in front of me I say, how come nobody's made a movie or a… — John Sayles Copy Share
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;… — John Sayles Copy Share
I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing… — John Sayles Copy Share
