John Logan
John Logan
fell hitchcock love power tyrone welles
I fell in love with Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone and Hitchcock and Orson Welles and John Huston.
fragility man orphan
Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself.
involved people sort
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.
adaptation opposed
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.
private
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.
director great hand star studio truism
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.
liked losing team watching
I liked watching their team play, ... I didn't like losing to them of course, but you always like watching a team like that play.
alienated empowered knew man monstrous people personally socially
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.
movies
We wanted 'Hugo' to be a cornucopia of cinema, a celebration of everything we do in movies.
experience
Working on 'Skyfall' was the most enjoyable experience I've ever had on a movie, ever.
cut filmmakers great martin
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.