68 Quotes by Neil LaBute

I have a healthy view of what one can do with art.

I think the more the actor lets you know what he thinks of the character, the less the audience cares - like a comedian who laughs at his own jokes.

I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.

If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff.

Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.

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 getting women into the theaters was difficult.

I think Christine and Chad are on the opposite extremes of the spectrum. Christine is a model victim, and Chad is a model perpetrator, and Howard is closer to the middle.

I didn't choose BYU, I like to think it chose me.

I see bits and pieces of me in all the characters in my films.