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John Logan

The reason that I’m a writer today is because of Shakespeare and falling in love with Shakespeare when I was 8. That was through the movies, actually – through Olivier’s ‘Hamlet.’ That was the first thing that got me to fall in love with Shakespeare and movies and everything in one big preadolescent rush.

– John Logan

John Logan

The history of screenwriting – of what we do – is more than 100 years old. It’s thousands of years old, going back to Sophocles and Euripedes. I believe the only – the only – separation for being a dramatist is reading drama.

– John Logan

John Logan

Young screenwriters are always very frustrated when they talk to me. They say, ‘How do we get to be a screenwriter?’ I say, ‘You know what you do? I’ll tell you the secret, it’s easy: Read ‘Hamlet.’ You know? Then read it again, and read it again, and read it until you understand it. Read ‘King Lear,’ and then read ‘Othello.’

– John Logan

John Logan

Theater people say you are either a comedian or a tragedian, and I’m a tragedian. And the vexing, dark characters, the ones where I don’t understand their pain or their anguish, they are the characters that appeal to me.

– John Logan

John Logan

We wanted ‘Hugo’ to be a cornucopia of cinema, a celebration of everything we do in movies.

– John Logan

John Logan

Working with Ridley is working with one of the great filmmakers and one of the great raconteurs. You know, it’s like, a dinner with Ridley Scott or a dinner with Martin Scorsese? You just want to cut your arm off to get those.

– John Logan

John Logan

If you look at the muscularity of something like ‘Wicked’ and the way it has just spawned sort of generations of young people wanting to get involved in the theatre – it’s brilliant.

– John Logan

John Logan

I love novels, but I’m not a novelist. I’m just a dramatist, which means I write lines for actors. That’s all I have ever wanted to do.

– John Logan

John Logan

I grew up loving monsters. I’m just a total monster geek. When I was a kid, I had the Aurora monster models, and I would make them. I loved the Universal horror movies and the Hammer movies. I just had an affinity for them.

– John Logan

John Logan

I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of Chekhov and Ibsen and Shakespeare, but what it is to be a playwright, to be interacting with human beings in the live theater and affect people on such a direct, emotional level.

– John Logan

John Logan

I’m a very private person, a very bookish person. The social world of Hollywood I know nothing about because I choose not to take part.

– John Logan

John Logan

When I started earning money from screen-writing, for a long time my only indulgences were books.

– John Logan

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