John Logan
John Logan
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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.
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By the time I wrote 'Any Given Sunday' or 'Bats,' I sort of knew what my job was in terms of what a writer of dialogue does.
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'Coriolanus' has been around for 400 years, and it's going to be around for another 400 years, and nothing I can do is going to mess it up. So, going into it, I felt sort of very free to look at it as a filmmaker does.
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Oh, my God - I am really shaping the destiny of these characters. There's Patrick as Jean-Luc Picard, and he's now going to do a scene that I wrote. So that for me was the biggest sort of fan/professional synthesis.
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Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself.
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When I started earning money from screen-writing, for a long time my only indulgences were books.
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We wanted 'Hugo' to be a cornucopia of cinema, a celebration of everything we do in movies.
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The reason that I'm a writer today is because of Shakespeare and falling in love with Shakespeare when I was 8. That was through the movies, actually - through Olivier's 'Hamlet.' That was the first thing that got me to fall in love with Shakespeare and movies and everything in one big preadolescent rush.
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If this act had been passed two years ago there would not have been much debate about conformity. But this year, more than 40 states are facing budget shortfalls.
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One of our defense teams was named a top 10 team. This is by far the best year we have ever had in youth government. The quality and caliber of the students who participated this year was remarkable.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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