Any adaptation - and I've done three in my career. I did 'Sweeney Todd' and 'Hugo' and 'Coriolanus.' It's important to find what makes it a movie as opposed to just a film presentation of a stage play. — 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… — John Logan 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 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… — John Logan 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 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
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… — John Logan 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 is going… — John Logan Copy Share Image
We wanted 'Hugo' to be a cornucopia of cinema, a celebration of everything we do in movies. — John Logan Copy Share Image
