List of John Sayles Quotes

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John Sayles
Total Quotes 45
I think i got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference.
Writing Thinking Stories
Sometimes people can't afford to work for you, or they're not interested or available, and you hate to have written the whole movie with somebody in mind and not get them.
Hate People Mind
I take more jobs when i need more money, if i'm investing in films. i take fewer when i don't. or if something really good comes along, i usually find a way to do a good job on it in the time that i've got.
Jobs Needs Investing
But compared to writing a novel, where you can be god, i did the bay of pigs invasion in six pages once, and there were 50,000 guys with boots that i didn't have to pay, and all those extras; we didn't have to pay them.
Writing Pigs Guy
I made it about a three-day weekend so people wouldn't have to change their clothes a lot. we didn't have an art department; we didn't have a make-up department.
Art Weekend Clothes
Well, acting is cheap; i knew all these actors who weren't in the screen actors guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old.
Years Acting Actors
I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and i thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'okay, you fall off the horse this time.
Horse Fall Cowboy
I never actually do rehearsals. that's one of the reasons that i write those bios and if i can meet with the actors i'll meet them or talk to them on the phone. what i want is for them to come on set knowing their lines and knowing who the character is.
Writing Character Phones
I remember being out here at the sunset marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, i would take that picture that i was writing and i would put that in the typewriter, so when i had the meeting, they would say: 'oh, you're working on it right now?'
Writing Sunset Typewriters
There are very few distributors left to do off-hollywood movies, and those distributors generally have got thousands of movies to choose from. so you're pretty lucky if you get one to even take your movie and it's pretty rare that they pay anything upfront.
Hollywood Lucky Pay
I see very small movies being financed by crowdfunding. if you're a well-known actor or celebrity of some sort, you can probably raise between one and two million. i don't have that kind of cult [following].
Two Actors Kind
I probably wouldn't have done as many as i did in one year, which i did when i was trying to raise money.
Years Trying Done
  • Born: September 28, 1950
  • Occupation: Film Director
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