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John Sayles Quotes

John Sayles quotes

American Director September 28, 1950

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It's a mixed crowd at the dogs - black, white, hispanic - but to Walt they all look like Jackie Gleason. Heavyset guys with big plans and polyester souls. John Sayles
There is great literature about imprisonment, . . . about the foot soldier, . . . about the sea -- but not one great work about flying. John Sayles
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,' 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
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 hundred, and their comments were always very, very specific. John Sayles
John Sayles quote: "I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time..."
I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean. John Sayles
John Sayles quote: "I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent...."
I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book. 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
He likes to know things. He checks out book and record collections when he visits people, looks in medicine cabinets, takes inventory in refrigerators. He eaves drops on conversations at public phone booths. He reads murder victims' mail. John Sayles
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. John Sayles
I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't 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
John Sayles quote: "If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made...."
If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day. John Sayles
In a movie you have all these logistical problems; all these practical problems. 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
John Sayles quote: "The only difference between dancing and fucking," he said in..."
The only difference between dancing and fucking," he said in those days, "is that you don't fuck in front of a live band. 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. But still Bush has never had to answer those charges. 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

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