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John Sayles Quotes
And is there a movie, whatever the genre here, that I would like to go see? If I can see the germ of that there, Ill usually take the job. - John Sayles Quotes
And it was out in the theaters in two weeks. This is not, Were going to develop twenty-five and maybe ones going to get made, so the first three things I wrote got up on the screen and, good, bad or indifferent, I got to see them on their feet. - John Sayles Quotes
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 it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasnt going to give you any more money. - John Sayles Quotes
But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once, and there were 50,000 guys with boots that I didnt have to pay, and all those extras; we didnt have to pay them. - John Sayles Quotes
But once I discovered that there was such a thing as a screenwriter and a director and all that, it stayed in my head as a possibility. - John Sayles Quotes
Fahrenheit 9/11 took public domain information that should have been on the news every night and put it in a film that a lot of people went to see. But still Bush has never had to answer those charges. - John Sayles Quotes
For me the writing, when Im going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I dont change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie. - John Sayles Quotes
I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But its true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water. - John Sayles Quotes
I always felt like, okay, Im going to try to tell stories whatever way I can and it would be cool to make a movie, and tell a story that way. - John Sayles Quotes
I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you dont have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me. - John Sayles Quotes
I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, Okay, you fall off the horse this time. - John Sayles Quotes
I figured, When is that ever going to happen again?. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, What can I do well for $40,000?. - John Sayles Quotes
I like to act. I work for scale. I dont have an acting agent. Im in the book. - John Sayles Quotes
I made it about a three-day weekend so people wouldnt have to change their clothes a lot. We didnt have an art department; we didnt have a make-up department. - John Sayles Quotes
I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasnt something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to be. Most of what I know about style I learned from Roberto Clemente. - John Sayles Quotes
I probably wouldnt have done as many as I did in one year, which I did when I was trying to raise money. - John Sayles Quotes
I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: Oh, youre working on it right now? - John Sayles Quotes
I take more jobs when I need more money, if Im investing in films. I take fewer when I dont. Or if something really good comes along, I usually find a way to do a good job on it in the time that Ive got. - John Sayles Quotes
I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference. - John Sayles Quotes
Ive always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time thats what independent used to mean. - John Sayles Quotes
If you write a movie for Roger Corman, its going to get made. You saw it almost the next day. - John Sayles Quotes
In a movie you have all these logistical problems; all these practical problems. But youre also going to have people come who can do things that you cant do, and you get to direct their talents. - John Sayles Quotes
Michael Moore, whether you like him or hate him, has done something very important. - John Sayles Quotes
My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, its a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, thats his problem. - John Sayles Quotes
Not that Ive always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them dont come out-but Ive gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that. - John Sayles Quotes
So when I came to making movies, thats the way I wanted to do it. I didnt kind of wanting to just do one part of the process and leave it at that. - John Sayles Quotes
The hardest thing about movie acting is that if youre playing a character who changes within the movie, youve got to do that, but youve got to do it out of sequence, because we never have gotten to shoot in sequence, and thats really, really tough. - John Sayles Quotes
The media in America has become so cowed and compromised. - John Sayles Quotes
There are genres I dont care for, and Ive never worked in those genres, and then sometimes there are people that I havent liked and I havent worked for those people. But if I feel like theres a movie that I would like to go see, Ill jump into it. - John Sayles Quotes
There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, How can you make a movie during an election thats about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence peoples lives? To which my response was, Well, I hope so. - John Sayles Quotes
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