Realistically, it's the great truism that screenwriters are fungible, that at the end of the day a studio is not going to want to fire a movie star. And they're really not going to want to fire a star director… — John Logan Copy Share Image
Working on 'Skyfall' was the most enjoyable experience I've ever had on a movie, ever. — John Logan Copy Share Image
“Children don't have hearts yet, not really. They haven't been hurt into the need for one.” — John Logan Copy Share Image
I grew up on the Bond movies. The first one I saw was 'Diamonds Are Forever,' when I was a kid. I just loved… — John Logan Copy Share Image
The history of screenwriting - of what we do - is more than 100 years old. It's thousands of years old, going back to… — John Logan Copy Share Image
The themes, ideas and the characters from 'Skyfall' can obviously continue on, because it is a franchise, and it is an ongoing story. — John Logan Copy Share Image
“But how can you be Peter Pan? You? The Boy Who Never Grew Up? That's not you. You have egg on your collar. You can't fly. You're not Alice. Alice was a blond little girl, I know it. You're lying to me.' And then they remember. What growing up really is: when they learned that boys can't fly and mermaids… — John Logan Copy Share
Cinema is a visual language, and you're always looking for visual metaphors for things. You know, if I was writing a play about Howard… — John Logan Copy Share Image
“Everyone likes everything nowadays. They like the television and the phonograph and the shampoo and the soda pop and the Cracker Jack. Everything becomes everything else and it's all nice and pretty and LIKABLE. Everything is fun in the sun! Where's the discernment? Where's the arbitration that separates what I LIKE from what I RESPECT, what I deem WORTHY, what… — John Logan Copy Share
Young screenwriters are always very frustrated when they talk to me. They say, 'How do we get to be a screenwriter?' I say, 'You… — John Logan Copy Share Image
Whether you're writing a horror show or a James Bond film, I think what bubbles beneath is interesting characterization. The colors that emerge through… — John Logan Copy Share Image
I love novels, but I'm not a novelist. I'm just a dramatist, which means I write lines for actors. That's all I have ever… — John Logan Copy Share Image
If you look at the muscularity of something like 'Wicked' and the way it has just spawned sort of generations of young people wanting… — John Logan Copy Share Image
