Film Quotes by Brian Helgeland

8 Film quotes by Brian Helgeland

Brian Helgeland’s reflections on film, concise yet resonant, reveal the storyteller behind hits like "L.A. Confidential." In just eight snippets you’ll sense his blend of gritty realism and narrative craft that shapes his work.

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I was in a bookstore one afternoon, and I stumbled across this book called 'A Guide to Film Schools.' I always loved…

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You can write anything you want on paper, like blowing up the bridge on the River Kwai, but when you actually have…

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There are plenty of writers who are going to become a director after their next job, but no one will believe you're…

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I worked as hard to write the worst film of the year as I did to write the best film of the…

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The studio is spending great amounts of money, and they want some insurance they will get money back. They go for the…

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For me in a film, almost every scene you end up cutting a bit of the start of it out, and some…

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I know a lot of directors have a whole staff of people trying to find their next film for them. I always…

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In my own experience, the scripts that I wrote, if they didn't go within two years and become a film, they never…

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As much as I love period movies and especially more swashbuckling movies, I think that sometimes they tend to be, umm... it's hard for…

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I think 'Cool Hand Luke' was probably the first movie in which I was aware of the writing as its own separate thing. It…

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Working on an adaptation is not as satisfying, because it's not your original work: you're interpreting. With 'L.A. Confidential,' I loved the book. In…

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If Im in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, Ooh, how could you cut this down to size…

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I don't really write with living actors in mind. I guess I write for dead actors. I'll think of like, you know, Burt Lancaster…

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I was in a bookstore one afternoon, and I stumbled across this book called 'A Guide to Film Schools.' I always loved movies growing…

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It's as boring to see a completely evil villain as it is to see a completely good guy.

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You can write anything you want on paper, like blowing up the bridge on the River Kwai, but when you actually have to do…

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Because I've been at it so long and very steadily, I have a lot of credits, but I probably have twice as many scripts…

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I write R-rated action dramas, and every year that goes by, that gets to be a smaller and smaller world you have to work…

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There are plenty of writers who are going to become a director after their next job, but no one will believe you're a director…

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Its such an egotistical thing to be able to just stand there and say, Action! Its like being a little mini-god.

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If you write an original, its like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, its like the…

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“The pieces of my broken heart are so small that they could be passed through the eye of a needle.”

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I worked as hard to write the worst film of the year as I did to write the best film of the year.

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