People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape. Neil LaBute More Quotes by Neil LaBute More Quotes From Neil LaBute And I've got some screenplays and plays ready to dip into when I need to. Neil LaBute dipplayneeds 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 feminismfeministmen My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self. Neil LaBute glowingselffriendship I make movies I want to see. Neil LaBute gamblingmovieactors 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 characterlaughingthinking If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff. Neil LaBute camerasscarystuff 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 responsibilitypregnancycharacter I have a healthy view of what one can do with art. Neil LaBute healthyviewsart 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. Neil LaBute mormonismchurchdoe 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. Neil LaBute longpastyears 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 victimoppositesthinking I didn't choose BYU, I like to think it chose me. Neil LaBute byuthinking Everyone has a little bit of Howard and Chad in them. I think there's Christine in all men as well. Neil LaBute littlesmenthinking And with Aaron, I'd have to find a reason not to work with him. Neil LaBute reason We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch. Neil LaBute humansbunch 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. Neil LaBute privilegefitguy I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis. One example would be the letter writing, or the reading of the letters. If you remember from the book, they find the letters and then in the most undramatic way they take them downstairs, they get approval, they sit at a table during the day with their own author, across from each other. Neil LaBute emphasisdramatic Movies are - all I've found is that they're just tougher and tougher to make. Neil LaBute found It's funny how that comes up, because sometimes I'll write something and I'll think, I don't know if that's a film or a play, and then other things I feel very strongly about them just being plays - they feel very theatrical to me. Neil LaBute playwritingthinking 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 knowpaintingrealpeople
