I didnt want to be 50 or 60 and auditioning for a three-line role.

- Grant Heslov

Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

- Grant Heslov

I acted for so many years and sat on a million sets and worked with a million different directors so that is to me some of the best training you can …

- Grant Heslov

There are times when you work with directors on set, and things are a bit rudderless, and those can be good directors.

- Grant Heslov

The Ides of March was a fairly cynical film.

- Grant Heslov

We usually break the story first. For instance, on The Monuments Men, and this one is more complicated because there's a lot of history, so before we…

- Grant Heslov

A lot of the art that was destroyed was painted and created by Jews. A lot of that is gone because that was degenerative art. That's what Hitler was …

- Grant Heslov

You really have to get out of an actor's head to write because actors only care about their part and it revolves around their part so "This is the im…

- Grant Heslov

As a writer, you know what the purpose of the scene is. It really has nothing to do with the actor so you have to really get out of that space becaus…

- Grant Heslov