Neil LaBute Quotes
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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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It's funny how that comes up, because sometimes I'll write something and I'll think, I don't know if that's a film or a play, and then other things I feel very strongly about them just being plays - they feel very theatrical to me.
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But for me, it feels like a natural extension of what I've been doing: exploring relationships. Here you have two relationships and we can explore how difficult it is for people to be together.
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And I've got some screenplays and plays ready to dip into when I need to.
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There were certain things that I watched, and I screened a series of period films as well, not because I wanted to copy those, because I wanted to be different. “Far from the Madding Crowd” was one I looked to because I thought it looked so good. “Doctor Zhivago.” Unrequited love is always a great thing. “Tess” was something I looked at, I thought Polanski got the period right.
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I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.
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I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.
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First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.
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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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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.
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We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.
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I didn't choose BYU, I like to think it chose me.
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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.
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My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self.
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And with Aaron, I'd have to find a reason not to work with him.
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I have a healthy view of what one can do with art.
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I make movies I want to see.
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The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.
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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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Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.
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People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape.
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We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.
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Sitting in an automobile was where I first remember understanding how drama works ... Hidden in the back seat of a sedan, I quickly realized how deep the chasm or intense the claustrophobia could be inside your average family car.
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I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.
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If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff.
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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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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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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.
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Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.
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In a relationship you have to open yourself up.
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