Grant Heslov
Grant Heslov
Grant Heslovis an American actor, film producer, screenwriter and director, known for producing Argofor which he received an Academy Award for Best Picture as co-producer in 2013. He is also known for portraying Robbie in the 1996 screwball comedy Black Sheep...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth15 May 1963
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
catch explaining instead people throw
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.
time
It takes a long time to get a film made.
hope strongly
You have to make films you feel strongly about. And then hope you can find the audience.
money wake
When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.
men
'Monuments Men' is not a docudrama. It's not a documentary.
art bell fan fascinated guy guys listened named overnight psychic remote spies talked time viewing
I was a big fan of this guy named Art Bell - I don't know if you've heard of him before. I listened to his overnight show for years, and he had all these guys on at one time or another, and they talked about psychic spies and remote viewing and all that stuff. I actually was fascinated by it - more about the guys than about what they were doing.
contained good
When you look at a film like 'The Ides of March' or 'Good Night, and Good Luck' even, those are really contained pictures.
space focus purpose
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.
writing important actors
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..." .
writing thinking stories
Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.
art trying gone
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.
directors be-good good-directors
There are times when you work with directors on set, and things are a bit rudderless, and those can be good directors.
lines want three
I didnt want to be 50 or 60 and auditioning for a three-line role.
cynical march film
The Ides of March was a fairly cynical film.