Sayles, John Filmography

• Go for Sisters
  2013, role: director
• Go for Sisters
  2013, role: writer
• Let Fury Have the Hour
  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Casting By
  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Normals
  2012, role: actor , character name: Dr. Marx
• Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel
  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• La maleta mexicana
  2011, role: miscellaneous crew
• The Legend of Ivan Tors
  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself - Interviewee
• Amigo
  2010, role: director
• Scar Tissue
  2010, role: writer
• Ceremonia de clausura - 58 Festival Internacional de San Sebastián
  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Them That Work
  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Amigo
  2010, role: editor
• Amigo
  2010, role: writer
• Great Directors
  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Studs Terkel: Listening to America
  2009, role: actor
• In the Electric Mist
  2009, role: actor , character name: Michael Goldman
• The Spiderwick Chronicles
  2008, role: writer
• Ceremonia de inauguración - 56º festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián
  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Toe Tactic
  2008, role: actor , character name: Cramden
• Trailers from Hell
  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• IFP's Independent Filmmaker Conference
  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself - Film Director
• Ceremonia de clausura - 55º festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián
  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Honeydripper
  2007, role: editor
• Honeydripper
  2007, role: director
• Honeydripper
  2007, role: actor , character name: Zeke
• Honeydripper
  2007, role: writer
• Carlisle School
  2007, role: writer
• Obscene
  2007, role: actor
• Morirse está en Hebreo
  2007, role: producer
• Who Needs Sleep?
  2006, role: actor
• American Pets
  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Edge of Outside
  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Silver City
  2004, role: editor
• The Difference
  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Tell Them Who You Are
  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Silver City
  2004, role: director
• Silver City
  2004, role: writer
• Casa de los babys
  2003, role: director
• American Storytellers
  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Beyond Borders: John Sayles in Mexico
  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Unleashing the Beast: Making 'The Howling'
  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Casa de los babys
  2003, role: writer
• Casa de los babys
  2003, role: editor
• Sunshine State
  2002, role: editor
• Sunshine State
  2002, role: writer
• Sunshine State
  2002, role: director
• Bruce Springsteen: The Complete Video Anthology 1978-2000
  2001, role: director
• A Constant Forge
  2000, role: actor
• Girlfight
  2000, role: producer
• Girlfight
  2000, role: actor , character name: Science Teacher
• Limbo
  1999, role: writer
• Limbo
  1999, role: director
• Limbo
  1999, role: editor
• Film-Fest DVD: Issue 2 - Cannes
  1999, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Santitos
  1999, role: producer
• Gridlock'd
  1997, role: actor , character name: Cop #1
• Men with Guns
  1997, role: director
• Men with Guns
  1997, role: editor
• Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
  1997, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Men with Guns
  1997, role: writer
• Lone Star
  1996, role: editor
• Lone Star
  1996, role: director
• Lone Star
  1996, role: writer
• Piranha
  1995, role: writer
• Piranha
  1995, role: writer
• The Secret of Roan Inish
  1994, role: writer
• The Secret of Roan Inish
  1994, role: director
• The Secret of Roan Inish
  1994, role: editor
• Men of War
  1994, role: writer
• My Life's in Turnaround
  1993, role: actor , character name: Marginal Producer
• Matinee
  1993, role: actor , character name: Bob
• Passion Fish
  1992, role: writer
• Passion Fish
  1992, role: director
• Straight Talk
  1992, role: actor , character name: Guy Girardi
• Passion Fish
  1992, role: actor , character name: Doctor in Soap
• Passion Fish
  1992, role: editor
• Malcolm X
  1992, role: actor , character name: FBI Agent
• City of Hope
  1991, role: actor , character name: Carl
• City of Hope
  1991, role: director
• City of Hope
  1991, role: writer
• City of Hope
  1991, role: editor
• Naked Hollywood
  1991, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Little Vegas
  1990, role: actor , character name: Mike
• American Dream
  1990, role: miscellaneous crew
• Shannon's Deal
  1990, role: writer
• Shannon's Deal
  1990, role: director
• Shannon's Deal
  1989, role: writer
• Bruce Springsteen: Video Anthology 1978-1988
  1989, role: director
• Bruce Springsteen: Video Anthology 1978-1988
  1989, role: director
• Untama giru
  1989, role: actor
• La fine della notte
  1989, role: actor , character name: Wayne
• Bruce Springsteen: Video Anthology 1978-1988
  1989, role: director
• Breaking In
  1989, role: writer
• Eight Men Out
  1988, role: writer
• Eight Men Out
  1988, role: actor , character name: Ring Lardner
• Eight Men Out
  1988, role: director
• Matewan
  1987, role: actor , character name: Hardshell Preacher
• Wild Thing
  1987, role: writer
• Wild Thing
  1987, role: writer
• Matewan
  1987, role: writer
• Matewan
  1987, role: director
• Something Wild
  1986, role: actor , character name: Motorcycle Cop
• The Clan of the Cave Bear
  1986, role: writer
• Unnatural Causes
  1986, role: writer
• Unnatural Causes
  1986, role: actor , character name: Lloyd
• Hard Choices
  1985, role: actor , character name: Don
• The Brother from Another Planet
  1984, role: writer
• The Brother from Another Planet
  1984, role: director
• The Brother from Another Planet
  1984, role: actor , character name: Man In Black
• The Brother from Another Planet
  1984, role: editor
• Lianna
  1983, role: writer
• Lianna
  1983, role: actor , character name: Jerry
• Baby It's You
  1983, role: director
• Lianna
  1983, role: director
• Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
  1983, role: writer
• Baby It's You
  1983, role: writer
• Lianna
  1983, role: editor
• The Challenge
  1982, role: writer
• The Howling
  1981, role: actor , character name: Morgue Attendant
• The Howling
  1981, role: writer
• Battle Beyond the Stars
  1980, role: writer
• A Perfect Match
  1980, role: writer
• Alligator
  1980, role: writer
• Alligator
  1980, role: writer
• Battle Beyond the Stars
  1980, role: writer
• The Lady in Red
  1979, role: writer
• Return of the Secaucus Seven
  1979, role: editor
• Return of the Secaucus Seven
  1979, role: actor , character name: Howie
• Return of the Secaucus Seven
  1979, role: writer
• Return of the Secaucus Seven
  1979, role: director
• Piranha
  1978, role: actor , character name: Army Sentry
• Piranha
  1978, role: writer
• Piranha
  1978, role: writer

Sayle, John Filmography

• Out of Tune
  1996, role: writer
• Out of Tune
  1996, role: writer
• Astro Farm
  1992, role: writer
• Scotch & Wry
  1986, role: writer
• The Chucklehounds
  1985, role: writer
• Three of a Kind
  1981, role: writer
• The Two Ronnies
  1971, role: writer
• The Dave Allen Show
  1968, role: writer

Sayles, John Filmography

• The Umbrella
  2013, role: actor , character name: Pastor Jim

Famous quotes by John Sayles:

"I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to be. Most of what I know about style I learned from Roberto Clemente."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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,'"

"I was surprised that it still existed, ... that it hadn't, 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."

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

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

"I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'."

"I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: 'Oh, you're working on it right now?'"

"Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old."

"Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that."

"Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn't going to give you any more money."

"I take more jobs when I need more money, if I'm investing in films. I take fewer when I don't. Or if something really good comes along, I usually find a way to do a good job on it in the time that I've got."

"Michael Moore, whether you like him or hate him, has done something very important."

"In a movie you have all these logistical problems; all these practical problems. But you're also going to have people come who can do things that you can't do, and you get to direct their talents."

"I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water."

"For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie."

"I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference."