Neil LaBute Quotes

I felt, if I'm going to take on some of the most overdone material, which is men and women and affairs and betrayal of friends, I had better have a new take on it. I think my films come from a desperation not to be boring.

Neil LaBute

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• There are films like 'Interstellar' where you cannot replicate the experience of seeing it in IMAX - it's an amazing film presented in a spectacular way. It really is an experience, like going to Disneyland, and you can't replicate that by watching home videos of going to Disneyland.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Home
  • Experience
  • Amazing

• Young audience, in the age group of 16-33 years, constitutes the main viewership of Bollywood films.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Age
  • Audience
  • Group

• I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Strong
  • You
  • I Can

• Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • History
  • Man
  • Me

• As the culture war is about irreconcilable beliefs about God and man, right and wrong, good and evil, and is at root a religious war, it will be with us so long as men are free to act on their beliefs.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to be different, there is sufficient matter to furnish a black artist with a lifetime of creative work.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Work
  • Different
  • American

• The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Good
  • Leadership
  • Luck

• The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Kind

• I think, at some point, we have to be followers of Christ - not followers of White Christ, or any other color Christ, for that matter.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Think
  • Color
  • White

• A flock is nothing but the put-together of all your past choices.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Together
  • Past
  • Choices

• We must understand the politics of our community and we must know what politics is supposed to produce. We must know what part politics play in our lives. And until we become politically mature we will always be mislead, lead astray, or deceived or maneuvered into supporting someone politically who doesn’t have the good of our community at heart.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Community

• Senior academic condemns ‘deluded’ supporters of GM food as being ‘anti-science’ and ignoring evidence of dangers (4 March 2015)

  

  Jane Goodall
  • Science
  • Food
  • Senior

• The other work we started in 1992, it is called Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River in the state of Colorado, we haven't got the permit yet. And, we are working at both of those, trying to get the permit. Therefore, we do not know which one will be realized next.

  

  Christo
  • Work
  • Trying
  • River

• Everyone thrives most in his or her own unique environment.

  

  Marilu Henner
  • Environment
  • Unique

• I didn't always take myself that seriously. Image-wise, I was somewhat of a jokester.

  

  Anderson Paak
  • Wise

• I find you get out of people what you put into them.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • People

• I don't have to try to be perfect at everything.

  

  Cindy Crawford
  • Perfect

• Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children.

  

  Christiane Amanpour
  • Children
  • Passion

• I love that he's both comic and tragic, and highly poetic but also just dirty at times. ... I love that within the world of Shakespeare's plays, the whole world is sort of encompassed in a certain way.

  

  Lauren Groff
  • World
  • Dirty

• The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.

  

  Ken MacLeod
  • Alone
  • Responsibility
  • Justice

• I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock and pound into the studio and get home at 7:30 or eight o'clock at night, or act over and over and over every night on Broadway, either.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Up
  • Home
  • Night

• I made a film where nobody got shot and nobody went to see it.

  

  Sam Peckinpah
  • Film
  • See
  • Shot

• I felt, if I'm going to take on some of the most overdone material, which is men and women and affairs and betrayal of friends, I had better have a new take on it. I think my films come from a desperation not to be boring.

  

  Neil LaBute
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Film