Neil LaBute Quotes

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• My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self.
• In a relationship you have to open yourself up.
• I make movies I want to see.
• Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.
• People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing…
• I think the more the actor lets you know what he thinks of the character, the less the audience cares - like a comedian who…
• If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff.
• But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have…
• The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.
• But for me, it feels like a natural extension of what I've been doing: exploring relationships. Here you have two relationships and we can explore…
• I have a healthy view of what one can do with art.
• I see bits and pieces of me in all the characters in my films.
• I'm more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low…
• My business is can I create a world that's possible and could happen? I think that's the only thing that I have to do, and…
• With In the Company of Men, the misogynist label stuck early and firmly. In the end, it probably did hurt the film a bit, because…
• Unrequited love is always a great thing.
• Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.
• Sitting in an automobile was where I first remember understanding how drama works ... Hidden in the back seat of a sedan, I quickly realized…
• I felt, if I'm going to take on some of the most overdone material, which is men and women and affairs and betrayal of friends,…
• I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.

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