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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
But for me, it feels like a natural extension of what I’ve been doing: exploring relationships. Here you have two relationships and we can explore how difficult it is for people to be together. Neil LaBute Read Quote
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 Read Quote
You start as an audience member and create a world you’re interested in, and then you move into the telling of those stories, bringing what has interested you as an audience member. Neil LaBute Read Quote
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 Read Quote
My business is can I create a world that’s possible and could happen? I think that’s the only thing that I have to do, and I think that I have done that each time. Neil LaBute Read Quote
People think my work is therapeutic. I don’t see it that way. It’s not like I’m saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life. Neil LaBute Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
