Quotes by John Sayles

“I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasnt something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to be. Most of what I know about style I learned from Roberto Clemente.”

“Its the best of all worlds, ... You never know when the phone rings who its going to be.”

“You stay with the technology, you stay with the people, you dont rust.”

“I was surprised that it still existed, ... that it hadnt, in fact ... been swallowed up by developers. And I went down, and there it still was, with two condo outfits on either side of this beautiful stretch of beach, but it was like they were moving one foot forward every day, and they were about to get it.”

“The next time [the studio] comes down the pike, they cant say, I hear your actor took half of what your quote usually is ... and were going to be nice to you and offer three quarters of your quote,”

“The movie starts on a broader level, with black humor. But when you realize the joke is on us, its not so funny.”

“I was trying to think of a title for it, which is a hard thing. Limbo is basically a metaphor, anyway ... its this place where youre neither here nor there ... and so many people live that kind of life.”

“The election helped me focus ideas that I had been thinking about for a long time, ... Sunshine State.”

“It reminded me how much Florida is a place of parallel communities that dont always intersect and have totally different ways of looking at the world. They might do certain things together, but they dont necessarily mix.”

He likes to know things. He checks out book and record collections when he visits people, looks in medicine cabinets, takes inventory in refrigerators. He eaves drops on conversations at public phone booths. He reads murder victims mail.

There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, How can you make a movie during an election thats about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence peoples lives? To which my response was, Well, I hope so.