The 45+ John Sayles Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?'

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.

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].

I Probably Wouldn't Have Done As Many As I Did In One Year, Which I Did When I Was Trying To Raise Money.