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It's as boring to see a completely evil villain as it is to see a completely good guy.

~Brian Helgeland

Topics: Boring Evil Good Good Guy Guy See Villain

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As much as I love period movies and especially more swashbuckling movies, I think that sometimes they tend to be, umm... it's hard for the audience to relate to them.

~Brian Helgeland

Topics: Audience Hard Love More Movies Much Period Relate Sometimes Tend Them Think I Think I Love

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It's okay to lie as long as you reach a higher truth doing it.

~Brian Helgeland

Topics: Doing Higher Lie Long Okay Reach Truth You

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I write R-rated action dramas, and every year that goes by, that gets to be a smaller and smaller world you have to work in. You have to think of how to get the studio excited and sell them something.

~Brian Helgeland

Topics: Action Dramas Every Excited Get Gets Goes How Sell Smaller Something Studio Them Think Work World Write Year You I Write

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It's such an egotistical thing to be able to just stand there and say, 'Action!' It's like being a little mini-god.

~Brian Helgeland

Topics: Able Action Being Egotistical Just Like Little Say Stand Thing

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I think when I start out writing, I always try to write the version of the movie that I want to go see. I don't mean it in a way that ignores the audience, but I really set out to make a movie that I want to see and that, hopefully, other people will want to go see it. So whatever's amusing to me, I guess, I throw it all in there.

~Brian Helgeland

Topics: Always Amusing Audience Go Guess Hopefully Ignores Make Me Mean Movie Other Out People Really See Set Start Think Throw Try Version Want Way Whatever Will Write Writing I Think

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I think 'Cool Hand Luke' was probably the first movie in which I was aware of the writing as its own separate thing. It was that speech when the guy reads Paul Newman the riot act. The speech about going in the box.

~Brian Helgeland

Topics: About Act Aware Box Cool First Going Guy Hand Luke Movie Newman Own Paul Paul Newman Reads Riot Separate Speech Thing Think Which Writing I Think

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I don't really write with living actors in mind. I guess I write for dead actors. I'll think of like, you know, Burt Lancaster would be good in this part, and so on. With 'L.A. Confidential,' it was like, 'Wouldn't it be cool if Dean Martin played the Kevin Spacey part?'

~Brian Helgeland

Topics: Actor Confidential Cool Dead Dean Dean Martin Good Guess Kevin Know Like Living Martin Mind Part Played Really Think Would Write You I Write

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If you write an original, it's like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, it's like the oil well's on fire, and they bring you in to put the fire out and get it working again - or something like that.

~Brian Helgeland

Topics: Adaptation Again Bring Dug Fire Get Hit Like Oil Original Out Put Something Well Working Write You

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If I'm in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, 'Ooh, how could you cut this down to size and make a movie out of it?'

~Brian Helgeland

Topics: Bookstore Could Cut Down First How Make Movie Novel Out See Size Thought You I See Ooh

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: January 17th, 1961

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