68 Quotes by Neil LaBute

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    I don't see my career as this steady building to a point, it's just a path that wanders for me to do whatever I'm interested in doing.

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    But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife.

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    Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?

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    I felt, if I'm going to take on some of the most overdone material, which is men and women and affairs and betrayal of friends, I had better have a new take on it. I think my films come from a desperation not to be boring.

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    Everyone has a little bit of Howard and Chad in them. I think there's Christine in all men as well.

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    There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen.

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