Biopic Quotes

There are so many psychological and deep ramifications to this story -- that's why Neil and I were attracted to it. Like (Storyline's 'Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows'), this is not just another biopic. - Craig Zadan

The biopic also wasn't a form that I necessarily believed in, because you can never really get it right, you know? It's also a form that's very popular - the straight-ahead biopic. - Gus Van Sant

It is not a biopic; it is not a trawl through the facts of somebody's life. It is more an evening with a Shakespearean clown who speaks the truth and was whipped for his pains. Writing the play made me love and loathe my country more: love it that it could create, and has always created, one-offs like Quentin; loathe it for its rejection of him. - Quentin Crisp

In the biopic scripts, we did address heroin, which was part of her life. To tell you the honest truth, those scripts didn't work. - Tony Scott

I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying. - Bill Condon

I don't get the point in a lot of biopics, they're boring. You know what's gonna happen. You're just watching actors show off. - Samantha Morton

A biopic would have required hiring an actor, and I always wanted to just let Bobby be Bobby. My thought was it would make it a more universal story to focus on ordinary people rather than this extraordinary man. - Emilio Estevez

[Next year he has plans to play eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes in a Scorsese-directed biopic. Fame] forced him to go away longer than he ever wanted to... Hopefully he'll make up for the lost time. - Steven Spielberg