Quotes by John Sayles

John Sayles

America is a very divided country now. Not only are there red states and blue states, there are now red facts and blue facts. The right-wing believe in creationism. The left in evolution.

Believe

Country

Wings

As a screenwriter I’m often writing in genres where there have been thousands of movies; whereas when I direct movies they tend to be in between genres. They tend to have a little bit of a genre to them, but they’re really about the people, and they’re people we haven’t met before.

Littles

People

Writing

Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.

Assumption

Inspirational

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 wasn’t going to give you any more money.

Giving

Good Movie

Roger

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 didn’t have to pay, and all those extras; we didn’t have to pay them.

Guy

Pigs

Writing

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.

Night

People

Should Have

For me the writing, when I’m going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don’t change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie.

Average

Two

Writing

I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it’s true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.

America

Victory

Water

I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don’t 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.

Book

People

Writing

I don’t have a social agenda. I just don’t choose to ignore what’s in front of me.

Agendas

Fronts

Social

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Actors

Agendas

Agents

America

Argument

Art

Assumption

Average

Be Careful

Believe

Book

Cameras

Care

Character

Clothes

Contracts

Country

Couple

Cowboy

Democracy

Dog

Done

Editors

Fall

Firsts

Fronts

Giving

Good Movie

Grew Up

Guy

Hate

Hate Him

Hollywood

Horse

Important

Independent

Inspirational

Investing

Jobs

Kind

Knowing

Knows

Lines

Littles

Loss

Lucky

Mean

Media

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Quotes by John Sayles

John Sayles

America is a very divided country now. Not only are there red states and blue states, there are now red facts and blue facts. The right-wing believe in creationism. The left in evolution.

As a screenwriter I’m often writing in genres where there have been thousands of movies; whereas when I direct movies they tend to be in between genres. They tend to have a little bit of a genre to them, but they’re really about the people, and they’re people we haven’t met before.

Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.

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 wasn’t going to give you any more money.

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 didn’t have to pay, and all those extras; we didn’t have to pay them.

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.

For me the writing, when I’m going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don’t change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie.

I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it’s true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.

I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don’t 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.

I don’t have a social agenda. I just don’t choose to ignore what’s in front of me.

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