Words matter. These are the best John Logan Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
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.
I fell in love with Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone and Hitchcock and Orson Welles and John Huston.
Working on ‘Skyfall’ was the most enjoyable experience I’ve ever had on a movie, ever.
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.
We wanted ‘Hugo’ to be a cornucopia of cinema, a celebration of everything we do in movies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When I started earning money from screen-writing, for a long time my only indulgences were books.
The themes, ideas and the characters from ‘Skyfall’ can obviously continue on, because it is a franchise, and it is an ongoing story.
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.
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.
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.
Everything about ‘Hugo’ to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself.
