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I take more jobs when I need m...

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 98 quotes

I think I got spoiled and that...

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.

John Sayles 98 quotes

In a movie you have all these ...

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 98 quotes

Not that I've always loved the...

Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that.

John Sayles 98 quotes

The hardest thing about movie ...

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 98 quotes

It reminded me how much Florid...

It reminded me how much Florida is a place of parallel communities that don't always intersect and have totally different ways of looking at the world. They might do certain things together, but they don't necessarily mix.

John Sayles 98 quotes

The election helped me focus i...

The election helped me focus ideas that I had been thinking about for a long time, ... Sunshine State.

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I was trying to think of a tit...

I was trying to think of a title for it, which is a hard thing. Limbo is basically a metaphor, anyway ... it's this place where you're neither here nor there ... and so many people live that kind of life.

John Sayles 98 quotes

The movie starts on a broader ...

The movie starts on a broader level, with black humor. But when you realize the joke is on us, it's not so funny.

John Sayles 98 quotes

The next time [the studio] com...

The next time [the studio] comes down the pike, they can't say, 'I hear your actor took half of what your quote usually is ... and we're going to be nice to you and offer three quarters of your quote

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I was surprised that it still ...

I was surprised that it still existed, ... that it hadn't, in fact ... been swallowed up by developers. And I went down, and there it still was, with two condo outfits on either side of this beautiful stretch of beach, but it was like they were moving one foot forward every day, and they were about to get it.

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You stay with the technology, ...

You stay with the technology, you stay with the people, you don't rust.

John Sayles 98 quotes

It's the best of all worlds, ....

It's the best of all worlds, ... You never know when the phone rings who it's going to be.

John Sayles 98 quotes

Not that I've always loved the...

Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that.

John Sayles 98 quotes

And it was out in the theaters...

And it was out in the theaters in two weeks. This is not, 'We're going to develop twenty-five and maybe one's going to get made,' so the first three things I wrote got up on the screen and, good, bad or indifferent, I got to see them on their feet.

John Sayles 98 quotes

There was a widespread indigna...

There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, 'How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people's lives?' To which my response was, 'Well, I hope so.'

John Sayles 98 quotes

I never thought about being a ...

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 98 quotes

I figured somebody wrote a sto...

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.'

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I always feel that there are n...

I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.

John Sayles 98 quotes

My argument has always been th...

My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem.

John Sayles 98 quotes

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