Neil LaBute
Neil LaBute
Neil N. LaBute is an American film director, screenwriter, playwright and actor. He is most likely known for his first film, based on a play he wrote, In the Company of Men, which won awards from the Sundance Film Festival, the Independent Spirit Awards and the New York Film Critics Circle. He has also written and directed the films Possession, The Shape of Things, The Wicker Man, Some Velvet Morning, Dirty Weekend, and directed the films Nurse Betty, Lakeview Terrace,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth19 March 1963
CountryUnited States of America
I wanted to make these people real, not like they were in a painting. Like these are people who don't know they're in a period movie. Those concerns are incredibly immediate.
In a relationship you have to open yourself up.
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.
Movies are - all I've found is that they're just tougher and tougher to make.
I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.
People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape.
I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis.
Unrequited love is always a great thing.
I make movies I want to see.
Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.
If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff.
We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.