John Logan Quotes

The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies, like 'Jaws' or 'The Godfather.'

You take some creative license when you make a movie, and things can be a little bit different.

Lots of movies don't kind of work as well as they do on the page.

I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.

A feature film is twenty-four lies per second.

Ford didn't know what to do with Mister Roberts that wasn't repeating what was successful in New York. He was trying to do things to the play that would be his in the film.

The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen.

When you're lucky enough to have a good film made of your novel - and 'Never Let Me Go' is, believe me, a heartbreakingly good film indeed - you get wonderfully talented individuals each focusing on their special area.

People said that 'Fight Club' would be impossible to turn into a movie, but I think David Fincher loved that challenge.

I'd really love to work with Quentin Tarantino. There's so many people that I'd love to work with, but there's something about Quentin, and one of my all-time favorite films is 'Kill Bill.' Something along those lines would be such a blast.

'Underworld' was my first filmed book. I think there are about seven of my lines in it.

'The Fugitive Kind,' 'Rope,' 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' - I watched all these as a way of reminding myself that you can do a movie based on a play. You can do a movie that stays in one place for a long stretch.

I'd really like to do a movie, either as a producer or director. My ultimate fantasy would be to direct a movie and produce the entire soundtrack. I don't really see myself acting.

I think it's always a challenge to adapt a beautiful literary work into a fresh and alive film.

That's what I wanted to do... I wanted to make a great film that just happened to be based on a video game.

Polar' is based on the first and a little bit on the second book and all the characters from those novels are in there. The story is based on the graphic novel, but when it came to the execution of the film I felt I couldn't really make a movie without any dialogue.

An epic is the canvas Brian DePalma paints on.

I think comics can be the basis for great films, but I think the focus of such a project should be on making the film as good as possible, not on painstakingly replicating the comic.

I became really aware that when you're making a movie, you're making it three times. You're making it when you're writing it. You're making it when you're shooting it. And then you're remaking it again when you're editing it.

I was just like, "I want to make a decent 2-D movie." I was so worried that, instead of being a decent 2-D movie, it would have been a bad 3-D one.

I always wanted to direct a film.

It is not easy to deliver a good film and take the expectation of the audience one level higher every time.

I bought the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I paid to have it made into a play and I played in it for six months. I came back and I tried to make it into a movie, without success.

I am so impressed with people who can really make a big movie, a good movie. The amount of work that goes into it is incredible.