All John Sayles Quotes
- The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you're playing a character who changes within the movie, you've got to do that, but you've… Acting
- If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day. Corman
- Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked… Any
- There were not fifteen people in the story department and twenty-five producers and stuff. And Roger had produced 1,000 movies and directed a couple of… Comments
- 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 made,'… Bad
- 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 side… Anti
- There are genres I don't care for, and I've never worked in those genres, and then sometimes there are people that I haven't liked and… Care
- Those are fun, especially if they're going to shoot them in four weeks, because you know they're not going to mess with anything you do,… Especially
- To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you… Ask
- Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just… Acting
- 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 sometimes… All