68 Quotes by Neil LaBute

I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis.

People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape.

I wanted to make these people real, not like they were in a painting. Like these are people who don't know they're in a period movie. Those concerns are incredibly immediate.

Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even.

My business is can I create a world that's possible and could happen? I think that's the only thing that I have to do, and I think that I have done that each time.

You start as an audience member and create a world you're interested in, and then you move into the telling of those stories, bringing what has interested you as an audience member.

I think people are capable of everything I've written. Would they ever do it? I don't know and really don't care, because that's not my business.

It's just often more interesting to write about one or more people who are being awful to other people because it makes for exciting, dramatic fare.

I still am somewhat guarded with my feelings. A lot of writers find it much easier to express themselves on paper. That hasn't changed.