Quotes by Neil LaBute

About Neil LaBute:

Neil N. LaBute is an American film director, screenwriter and playwright.
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I have a healthy view of what one can do with art.

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Maybe that's what Hell is, in the end. All of your wrongful shit played out there in front of you while you're being pumped from behind by someone you've hurt. That you've screwed over in life. Or worse, worse still...some person who doesn't really l...

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I'm saying the American way is to overcome, to conquer, to come out on top. And we do it by spending and eating and screwing our women harder than anyone else. That's all I'm saying.

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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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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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Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.

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

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

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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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I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis.

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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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We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.

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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.

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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.

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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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Author Bio

  • NameNeil LaBute
  • DescriptionFilm director, playwright, screenwriter
  • BornMarch 19, 1963
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Author