If you write a movie for ...

If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.
 John Sayles

Quotes from the same author

I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.
 John Sayles
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.
 John Sayles
The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you're playing a character who changes within the movie, you've got to do that, but you've got to do it out of sequence, because we never have gotten to shoot in sequence, and that's really, really tough.
 John Sayles