Neil LaBute Quotes

• 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.

  Neil LaBute

• 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.

  Neil LaBute

• 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.

  Neil LaBute

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

  Neil LaBute

• I make movies I want to see.

  Neil LaBute

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

  Neil LaBute

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

  Neil LaBute

• 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.

  Neil LaBute

• Everyone has a story.

  Neil LaBute

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

  Neil LaBute

• 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.

  Neil LaBute

• 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.

  Neil LaBute

• And with Aaron, I’d have to find a reason not to work with him.

  Neil LaBute

• And I’ve got some screenplays and plays ready to dip into when I need to.

  Neil LaBute

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

  Neil LaBute

Neil LaBute (35)

Birth:	19th March, 1963
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Director, Screenwriter

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