Quotes by Grant Heslov - Page 1

Generally, screenplays suck.
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Screenplays
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It takes a long time to get a film made.
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Long Time
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The Ides of March was a fairly cynical film.
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Cynical
Film
March
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'The Ides of March' was a fairly cynical film.
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March
Fairly
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'Monuments Men' is not a docudrama. It's not a documentary.
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Documentary
Monuments
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I didnt want to be 50 or 60 and auditioning for a three-line role.
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Lines
Roles
Three
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I didn't want to be 50 or 60 and auditioning for a three-line role.
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Auditioning
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I don't make my living writing; I make my living as a producer and as a director.
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Producer
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When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.
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Decent
Wake Up
Dreaming
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You have to make films you feel strongly about. And then hope you can find the audience.
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Strongly
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Creatively, it's great, because when you write your own movies, you get to create whatever you want.
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Great Movies Your
Creatively
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Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.
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Stories
Thinking
Writing
Hardest Part
Screenplay
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There are times when you work with directors on set, and things are a bit rudderless, and those can be good directors.
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Be Good
Directors
Good Directors
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When you look at a film like 'The Ides of March' or 'Good Night, and Good Luck' even, those are really contained pictures.
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Good Luck
Luck
March
Contained
Good Look Night
Pictures
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There are films that cost a lot of money that might be decent films. But if they don't perform in that first weekend or two, they're gone.
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Cost
Decent
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I acted for so many years and sat on a million sets and worked with a million different directors so that is to me some of the best training you can get.
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Directors
Training
Years
Acted
Sets
So Many Years
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A lot of the art that was destroyed was painted and created by Jews. A lot of that is gone because that was degenerative art. That's what Hitler was trying to get rid of.
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Art
Gone
Trying
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'Monuments Men' is a movie... I don't want to say for grown-ups, because some young folks could appreciate it, too. But if you're expecting 'Transformers,' you're going to be disappointed.
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Disappointed
Expecting
Folks
Grown-Ups
Monuments
Transformers
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You really have to get out of an actor's head to write because actors only care about their part and it revolves around their part so "This is the important part because this is the part where..." .
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Actors
Important
Writing
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I think it's more interesting to throw people into a story and let them catch up instead of explaining and feeling like you have to slow down for them. I think audiences, for the most part, they don't want to be ahead of you.
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Explaining
Catch
Slow
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Look, a lot of directors were actors, even if they were unsuccessful actors which I think is helpful. I think it's a really helpful thing for a director to have experienced that. It helps you know how to talk to actors and how to get what you need from them.
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Directors
Needs
Thinking
Unsuccessful
Experienced
Helps
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A film like 'Good Night And Good Luck,' you make that for $7 million because you know it's a black-and-white film, and it's not an easy sell. If you make it for $7 million, then everybody can have a chance to make a little bit of money, and you get to make the film you want to make.
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Good Luck
Luck
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What you learn when you direct a film, even more so than as a producer, it's a marriage. It's like a relationship with that film so you've got to make sure that it's really something that you want to live with for three years or however long it is. So I haven't found the right thing to marry yet.
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Direct
Long
Right Thing
Three
Years
Marry
Producer
The Right Thing
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As a writer, you know what the purpose of the scene is. It really has nothing to do with the actor so you have to really get out of that space because for actors it's a micro-focus and then you figure out your arc through what the writers have given you to say. But that arc is just one little piece of the huge arc of the whole film. It took a while to get out of that.
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Space
Focus
Littles
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We usually break the story first. For instance, on The Monuments Men, and this one is more complicated because there's a lot of history, so before we started, we sat down with Robert Edsel, the author of the book, for about a week, and basically, he just gave us a lecture and went through everything. And then, I had a researcher, somebody who we had actually used on Argo.
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Men
Book
Stories
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