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L'amour? What a bore _ director Neil LaBute prefers war.

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From: The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune NewsService)
Date: 20030506
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Byline: Chris Vognar

DALLAS _ The novelist Gustave Flaubert advised that you should be violent in your art, not your life. The filmmaker-playwright Neil LaBute apparently took him to heart.

"I'm happy to have absolute moderation and quiet in life," says LaBute, in town for a screening of his new film "The Shape of Things." "But I would prefer some savagery in my viewing and my doing in terms of film. There's been so much already written and made that if it's not slightly new, or a new take, then your time is being stolen, let alone your 10 bucks."

Some would argue ...

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