“I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis.” — Neil LaBute Quote

I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis.

People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape.

With In the Company of Men, the misogynist label stuck early and firmly. In the end, it probably did hurt the film a bit, because getting women into the theaters was difficult.

I think Christine and Chad are on the opposite extremes of the spectrum. Christine is a model victim, and Chad is a model perpetrator, and Howard is closer to the middle.

We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.

Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not.

My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.

People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.

I love overkill - I'm nothing if not dramatic.

I'm not a dramatic person.