John Sayles Quotes

"I was trying to think of a title for it, which is a hard thing. Limbo is basically a metaphor, anyway ... it's this place where you're neither here nor there ... and so many people live that kind of life."
-John Sayles

"The election helped me focus ideas that I had been thinking about for a long time, ... Sunshine State."
-John Sayles

"You stay with the technology, you stay with the people, you don't rust."
-John Sayles

"The movie starts on a broader level, with black humor. But when you realize the joke is on us, it's not so funny."
-John Sayles

"It reminded me how much Florida is a place of parallel communities that don't always intersect and have totally different ways of looking at the world. They might do certain things together, but they don't necessarily mix."
-John Sayles

"The next time [the studio] comes down the pike, they can't say, 'I hear your actor took half of what your quote usually is ... and we're going to be nice to you and offer three quarters of your quote,'."
-John Sayles

"It's the best of all worlds, ... You never know when the phone rings who it's going to be."
-John Sayles