John Sayles

I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean. ↗

— John Sayles

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For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie. ↗

— John Sayles

#average #change #direct #draft #first

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

#america #dead #defeats #feel #final

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.' ↗

— John Sayles

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I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'. ↗

— John Sayles

#basically #budget #ever #figured #first

I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book. ↗

— John Sayles

#acting #agent #book #i #like

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

#art #change #clothes #department #i

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

#being #grew #i #know #learned

I probably wouldn't have done as many as I did in one year, which I did when I was trying to raise money. ↗

— John Sayles

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If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day. ↗

— John Sayles

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