John Sayles quotes Writer of 'Lone Star' (1996) Born: 09/28/1950 Country: usa

• 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. (John Sayles)
• He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn't going to give you any more money. (John Sayles)
• 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. (John Sayles)
• But still Bush has never had to answer those charges. (John Sayles)
• 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. (John Sayles)
• 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. (John Sayles)
• 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)
• I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book. (John Sayles)
• I probably wouldn't have done as many as I did in one year, which I did when I was trying to raise money. (John Sayles)
• 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, you're working on it right now?' (John Sayles)
• 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)
• I've always felt like I was on the margins. (John Sayles)
• Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean. (John Sayles)
• In a movie you have all these logistical problems; all these practical problems. (John Sayles)
• But you're also going to have people come who can do things that you can't do, and you get to direct their talents. (John Sayles)
• My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. (John Sayles)
• And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem. (John Sayles)
• 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 got to do it out of sequence, because we never have gotten to shoot in sequence, and that's really, really tough. (John Sayles)
• The media in America has become so cowed and compromised. (John Sayles)
• 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 I haven't worked for those people. (John Sayles)
• But if I feel like there's a movie that I would like to go see, I'll jump into it. (John Sayles)
• There were not fifteen people in the story department and twenty-five producers and stuff. (John Sayles)
• And Roger had produced 1,000 movies and directed a couple of hundred, and their comments were always very, very specific. (John Sayles)
• 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 what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good.' (John Sayles)
• 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 about thirty years old. (John Sayles)
• When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories. (John Sayles)
• 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 they're all good, and I say, 'What do you think?' and they pick the right thing. (John Sayles)
• If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day. (John Sayles)
• I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean. (John Sayles)
• Michael Moore, whether you like him or hate him, has done something very important. (John Sayles)
• 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. (John Sayles)

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