Neil LaBute

I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.

I have a healthy view of what one can do with art.

Everyone has a little bit of Howard and Chad in them. I think there's Christine in all men as well.

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.

Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.

We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.

I wanted to make these people real, not like they were in a painting. Like these are people who don't know they're in a period movie. Those concerns are incredibly immediate.

I'm more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low road.

My business is can I create a world that's possible and could happen? I think that's the only thing that I have to do, and I think that I have done that each time.