Neil LaBute Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.

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• Unrequited love is always a great thing.

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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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• People think my work is therapeutic. I don’t see it that way. It’s not like I’m saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

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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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• 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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• My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We’re all protective of the self.

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• 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.

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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’m more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low road.

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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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• In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

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• I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

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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 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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• I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis.

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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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Neil LaBute (35)

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

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