Neil LaBute Thinking Quotations

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.

I'm more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low road.

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.

Everyone has a little bit of Howard and Chad in them. I think there's Christine in all men as well.

I didn't choose BYU, I like to think it chose me.

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.

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.

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.

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.