When I was really young I didn’t know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories. John Sayles Read Quote
In a movie you have all these logistical problems; all these practical problems. But you’re also going to have people come who can do things that you can’t do, and you get to direct their talents. John Sayles Read Quote
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?’ John Sayles Read Quote
I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn’t something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to be. Most of what I know about style I learned from Roberto Clemente. John Sayles Read Quote
Fahrenheit 9/11 took public domain information that should have been on the news every night and put it in a film that a lot of people went to see. But still Bush has never had to answer those charges. John Sayles Read Quote
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. John Sayles Read Quote
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. John Sayles Read Quote
I’ve always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that’s what independent used to mean. John Sayles Read Quote
Michael Moore, whether you like him or hate him, has done something very important. John Sayles Read Quote
The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you’re playing a character who changes within the movie, you’ve got to do that, but you’ve got to do it out of sequence, because we never have gotten to shoot in sequence, and that’s really, really tough. John Sayles Read Quote
