John Logan Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Theater people say you are either a comedian or a tragedian, and I'm a tragedian. And the vexing, dark characters, the ones where I don't understand their pain or their anguish, they are the characters that appeal to me.”

“I fell in love with Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone and Hitchcock and Orson Welles and John Huston.”

“Young screenwriters are always very frustrated when they talk to me. They say, 'How do we get to be a screenwriter?' I say, 'You know what you do? I'll tell you the secret, it's easy: Read 'Hamlet.' You know? Then read it again, and read it again, and read it until you understand it. Read 'King Lear,' and then read 'Othello.'”

“By the time I wrote 'Any Given Sunday' or 'Bats,' I sort of knew what my job was in terms of what a writer of dialogue does.”

“Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself.”

“I love novels, but I'm not a novelist. I'm just a dramatist, which means I write lines for actors. That's all I have ever wanted to do.”

“I'm not interested in characters who aren't broken. I'm not interested in happy people. It just doesn't draw me as a writer.”

“The themes, ideas and the characters from 'Skyfall' can obviously continue on, because it is a franchise, and it is an ongoing story.”

“We wanted 'Hugo' to be a cornucopia of cinema, a celebration of everything we do in movies.”

“When I started earning money from screen-writing, for a long time my only indulgences were books.”