Sayles, John Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Go for Sisters

  2013, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Go for Sisters

  2013, role: editor
• Play in Full Screen Go for Sisters

  2013, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Casting By

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Normals

  2012, role: actor , character name: Dr. Marx
• Play in Full Screen Let Fury Have the Hour

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Mexican Suitcase

  2011, role: miscellaneous crew
• Play in Full Screen The Legend of Ivan Tors

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself - Interviewee
• Play in Full Screen Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen La maleta mexicana

  2011, role: miscellaneous crew
• Play in Full Screen Amigo

  2010, role: editor
• Play in Full Screen Amigo

  2010, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Amigo

  2010, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Ceremonia de clausura - 58 Festival Internacional de San Sebastián

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Scar Tissue

  2010, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Them That Work

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen In the Electric Mist

  2009, role: actor , character name: Michael Goldman
• Play in Full Screen Studs Terkel: Listening to America

  2009, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Great Directors

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Spiderwick Chronicles

  2008, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Trailers from Hell

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Toe Tactic

  2008, role: actor , character name: Cramden
• Play in Full Screen Ceremonia de inauguración - 56º festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Obscene

  2007, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Ceremonia de clausura - 55º festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Honeydripper

  2007, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen IFP's Independent Filmmaker Conference

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself - Film Director
• Play in Full Screen Carlisle School

  2007, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Honeydripper

  2007, role: editor
• Play in Full Screen Morirse está en Hebreo

  2007, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Honeydripper

  2007, role: actor , character name: Zeke
• Play in Full Screen Honeydripper

  2007, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Edge of Outside

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Who Needs Sleep?

  2006, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen American Pets

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Silver City

  2004, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Difference

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Tell Them Who You Are

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Silver City

  2004, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Silver City

  2004, role: editor
• Play in Full Screen American Storytellers

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Casa de los babys

  2003, role: editor
• Play in Full Screen Unleashing the Beast: Making 'The Howling'

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Casa de los babys

  2003, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Beyond Borders: John Sayles in Mexico

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Casa de los babys

  2003, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Sunshine State

  2002, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Sunshine State

  2002, role: editor
• Play in Full Screen Sunshine State

  2002, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Bruce Springsteen: The Complete Video Anthology 1978-2000

  2001, role: director

Sayle, John Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Out of Tune

  1996, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Out of Tune

  1996, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Astro Farm

  1992, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Scotch & Wry

  1986, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Chucklehounds

  1985, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Three of a Kind

  1981, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Two Ronnies

  1971, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Dave Allen Show

  1968, role: writer

Sayles, John Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Life and Death Row

  2013, role: actor , character name: Warden
• Play in Full Screen 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."