By the time I wrote 'Any Given Sunday' or 'Bats,' I sort of knew what my job was in terms of what… — John Logan Any Copy Share Image
“Children don't have hearts yet, not really. They haven't been hurt into the need for one.” — John Logan Child 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… — John Logan Actor Copy Share Image
We wanted 'Hugo' to be a cornucopia of cinema, a celebration of everything we do in movies. — John Logan Celebration 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… — John Logan Bond 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… — John Logan Because Copy Share Image
Cinema is a visual language, and you're always looking for visual metaphors for things. You know, if I was writing a play… — John Logan About 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… — John Logan Always Copy Share Image
When I was your age, art was a lonely thing: no galleries, no collecting, no critics, no money. We didn't have mentors.… — John Logan Age Copy Share Image
Realistically, it's the great truism that screenwriters are fungible, that at the end of the day a studio is not going to… — John Logan Because 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… — John Logan Brilliant Copy Share Image
'Coriolanus' has been around for 400 years, and it's going to be around for another 400 years, and nothing I can do… — John Logan Another Copy Share Image
Young screenwriters are always very frustrated when they talk to me. They say, 'How do we get to be a screenwriter?' I… — John Logan Again Copy Share Image
I couldn't write a happy movie or romantic comedy to save my life. Yes, Noel Coward's an idol, but his plays are… — John Logan Both 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.… — John Logan Art 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… — John Logan Little girl Copy Share Image
“PETER: But you're 'Alice'. ALICE: As you're 'Peter'... But after all, what's in a name? PETER: What isn't? She understands.” — John Logan Copy Share Image
“In the place called Adulthood there are no Cheshire Cats... for they can't endure the suffering of the place.” — John Logan Cats Copy Share Image
I fell in love with Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone and Hitchcock and Orson Welles and John Huston. — John Logan Fell Copy Share Image
Working on 'Skyfall' was the most enjoyable experience I've ever had on a movie, ever. — John Logan Enjoyable Copy Share Image
I'm a very private person, a very bookish person. The social world of Hollywood I know nothing about because I choose not… — John Logan About Copy Share Image
“Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation.” — John Logan Art Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in characters who aren't broken. I'm not interested in happy people. It just doesn't draw me as a writer. — John Logan Broken Copy Share Image
Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of… — John Logan About Copy Share Image
“Of that duality that makes us who we are, he is wholly evil. Duality? We are all two things in a way,… — John Logan Angel and devil Copy Share Image
The reason that I'm a writer today is because of Shakespeare and falling in love with Shakespeare when I was 8. That… — John Logan Actually Copy Share Image
I grew up loving monsters. I'm just a total monster geek. When I was a kid, I had the Aurora monster models,… — John Logan Affinity Copy Share Image
Personally speaking, growing up as a gay man before it was as socially acceptable as it is now, I knew what it… — John Logan Acceptable Copy Share Image
Any adaptation - and I've done three in my career. I did 'Sweeney Todd' and 'Hugo' and 'Coriolanus.' It's important to find… — John Logan Adaptation Copy Share Image
The history of screenwriting - of what we do - is more than 100 years old. It's thousands of years old, going… — John Logan 100 years Copy Share Image
“When I look at my own children, Mrs Hargreaves, I think… I think I know what childhood’s for. It’s to give us… — John Logan Childhood Copy Share Image
I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of… — John Logan Actor Copy Share Image
You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools… — John Logan Anthropology Copy Share Image
Honestly, not being evasive, but the great thing about Bond is that I have fifty years of movies - 23 movies and… — John Logan About Copy Share Image
“ROTHKO: (Explodes) 'Pretty.' 'Beautiful.' 'Nice.' 'Fine.' That's our life now! Everything's 'fine'. We put on the funny nose and glasses and slip… — John Logan Amused Copy Share Image
When I started earning money from screen-writing, for a long time my only indulgences were books. — John Logan Books Copy Share Image
Theater people say you are either a comedian or a tragedian, and I'm a tragedian. And the vexing, dark characters, the ones… — John Logan Anguish Copy Share Image
