“Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.”
Business
“The comic book world is a tough business.”
BusinessAll Quotes by Shia LaBeouf
“I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it.”
Cool“You can't buy back your respect you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up.”
Respect“I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.”
Respect“You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros' pocket money. It's fundamentally ridiculous.”
Money“Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.”
Movies“My mom is at my house every day, and she nags me about everything, especially hygiene.”
Mom“I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.”
Art“Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.”
Alone“When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.”
Sports“I'm not a strikingly handsome guy, but I'm in movies.”
Movies“I enjoy what I'm able to give my family.”
Family“Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we're enjoying it, but I'd stop if it's not possible.”
Dad“There's only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top.”
Relationship“They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me.”
Cool“I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.”
Money“To be able to sit in Donald Trump's apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing.”
Amazing“If I have enough money to eat I'm good.”
Money“When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.”
Positive“I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns.”
Movies