Top 42 John Logan Quotes
#1. While tributes to Americans who had lost their lives in battle had been held in a number of towns across the nation, one of the more well-known stories about the beginnings of Memorial Day is the story about General John Logan.
John Linder
#2. The history of screenwriting - of what we do - is more than 100 years old. It's thousands of years old, going back to Sophocles and Euripedes. I believe the only - the only - separation for being a dramatist is reading drama.
John Logan
#3. 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.
John Logan
#4. In the place called Adulthood there are no Cheshire Cats ... for they can't endure the suffering of the place.
John Logan
#5. I grew up on the Bond movies. The first one I saw was 'Diamonds Are Forever,' when I was a kid. I just loved them to pieces.
John Logan
#6. And if I sit in that room at the top of the house and I think about my life and if I shut my eyes from time to time and imagine being warm in the summer and I hear the bees buzzing and for a moment I truly am Alice in Wonderland, do you have the heart to tell me I am not?
John Logan
#7. I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of Chekhov and Ibsen and Shakespeare, but what it is to be a playwright, to be interacting with human beings in the live theater and affect people on such a direct, emotional level.
John Logan
#8. Any adaptation - and I've done three in my career. I did 'Sweeney Todd' and 'Hugo' and 'Coriolanus.' It's important to find what makes it a movie as opposed to just a film presentation of a stage play.
John Logan
#9. We can't live in a fantasy. Reality may be hard, but it's all we have.
John Logan
#10. Working with Ridley is working with one of the great filmmakers and one of the great raconteurs. You know, it's like, a dinner with Ridley Scott or a dinner with Martin Scorsese? You just want to cut your arm off to get those.
John Logan
#11. I grew up loving monsters. I'm just a total monster geek. When I was a kid, I had the Aurora monster models, and I would make them. I loved the Universal horror movies and the Hammer movies. I just had an affinity for them.
John Logan
#12. 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.
John Logan
#13. Realistically, it's the great truism that screenwriters are fungible, that at the end of the day a studio is not going to want to fire a movie star. And they're really not going to want to fire a star director because the director has the hand on the tiller of a ship.
John Logan
#14. I'm a very private person, a very bookish person. The social world of Hollywood I know nothing about because I choose not to take part.
John Logan
#15. If you look at the muscularity of something like 'Wicked' and the way it has just spawned sort of generations of young people wanting to get involved in the theatre - it's brilliant.
John Logan
#16. Don't waste your time obsessing over stupid actions of stupid people
Elle Kennedy
#17. Whether you're writing a horror show or a James Bond film, I think what bubbles beneath is interesting characterization. The colors that emerge through storytelling is what a dramatist does. There's always got to be something bubbling underneath that will erupt at some point.
John Logan
#18. When I look at my own children, Mrs Hargreaves, I think ... I think I know what childhood's for. It's to give us a bank of happy memories against future suffering. So when sadness comes, at least you can remember what it was to be happy.
John Logan
#19. I have entered the field to die, if need be, for this government, and never expect to return to peaceful pursuits until the object of this war of preservation has become a fact established.
John A. Logan
#20. We wanted 'Hugo' to be a cornucopia of cinema, a celebration of everything we do in movies.
John Logan
#21. 'Coriolanus' has been around for 400 years, and it's going to be around for another 400 years, and nothing I can do is going to mess it up. So, going into it, I felt sort of very free to look at it as a filmmaker does.
John Logan
#22. 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.
John Logan
#25. 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.
John Logan
#26. Personally speaking, growing up as a gay man before it was as socially acceptable as it is now, I knew what it was to feel different, to feel alienated and to feel not like everyone else. But the very same thing that made me monstrous to some people also empowered me and made me who I was.
John Logan
#27. In their groundbreaking book, Tribal Leadership, management consultants Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright lay out the five stages of tribal development, which they formulated after conducting extensive research on small to midsize organizations.
Phil Jackson
#28. Working on 'Skyfall' was the most enjoyable experience I've ever had on a movie, ever.
John Logan
#29. Children don't have hearts yet, not really. They haven't been hurt into the need for one.
John Logan
#30. I fell in love with Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone and Hitchcock and Orson Welles and John Huston.
John Logan
#31. When I was your age, art was a lonely thing: no galleries, no collecting, no critics, no money. We didn't have mentors. We didn't have parents. We were alone. But it was a great time, because we had nothing to lose and a vision to gain.
John Logan
#32. When I started earning money from screen-writing, for a long time my only indulgences were books.
John Logan
#33. Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation.
John Logan
#34. PETER: But you're 'Alice'.
ALICE: As you're 'Peter' ... But after all, what's in a name?
PETER: What isn't?
She understands.
John Logan
#35. Only the dreamer can change the dream...
John Logan
#36. Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself.
John Logan
#37. The themes, ideas and the characters from 'Skyfall' can obviously continue on, because it is a franchise, and it is an ongoing story.
John Logan
#38. You want to be a thing? Make yourself that thing.
John Logan
#39. I couldn't write a happy movie or romantic comedy to save my life. Yes, Noel Coward's an idol, but his plays are serious to me. 'Private Lives' and 'Design for Living' both have an edge. Without psychoanalyzing myself, I think I exorcise my demons in my work.
John Logan
#40. A major of colored troops is here with his party capturing negroes, with or without their consent ... They are being conscripted.
John A. Logan
#41. Behold congenial Autumn comes, the Sabbath of the Year.
John Logan
#42. Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.
John A. Logan
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