Callie Khouri Quotes

I didn't think of 'Thelma and Louise' as a feminist movie.

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• Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

  

  Federico Fellini
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  • Genius

• I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.

  

  Zadie Smith
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  • Write
  • Luxury

• I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.

  

  Dallas Roberts
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  • Pretty
  • Computers

• Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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  • Washington

• I'm a bit of a 'Throny,' as I think the 'Game of Thrones' fans refer to themselves.

  

  Nathalie Emmanuel
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• I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.

  

  Callie Khouri
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• I enjoy the sari. I think it's the sexiest garment ever. It shows you the right amount, it covers the right amount, it's extremely versatile, it suits every body type, it suits every face.

  

  Vidya Balan
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• Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.

  

  Tea Leoni
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  • Best

• A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?

  

  J. D. Hayworth
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  • Question

• People always come up to me now and say, 'Watchmen' is the best superhero movie ever made.' I'm always saying 'That's super cool. That's nice of you to say.' But it happens now, more and more and more than it did when it first came out.

  

  Zack Snyder
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• I think because Sport Lux has come in and leisure wear is a new thing, girls can sneak in hoodies and leggings and so on where they wouldn't normally - it has been proper legitimate fashion.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
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• One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.

  

  Sal Mineo
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• I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - what makes people tick. I've also always been passionate about social issues and causes, and I wanted to make films that addressed important issues in very human terms.

  

  Barbara Kopple
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• I would love to do a 'Scream'-type movie.

  

  Abigail Breslin
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• The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.

  

  A. R. Rahman
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  • Different
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• I don't think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.

  

  Tanya Tucker
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• If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
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  • Contract

• I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

  

  Van Morrison
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  • Irish

• Maybe everyone lives forever. Or maybe, like in the animated movie 'Coco,' only those whose stories get told by the living definitely do. It takes a story worth telling.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Movie
  • Forever

• When I won the Oscar, I fell into that mind-set that this is a precious role. People everywhere were shouting, 'Show me the money!' I just didn't want anything that could parody the fact that I was like a tagline in a movie. So when Steven Spielberg offered me 'Amistad,' I said no; when 'Hotel Rwanda' came along, I said no.

  

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.
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• Like every artist that comes out, you want to make a mark; you want to be a household name and you want to be someone that people are going to look back in ten years/fifteen years' time and go, 'I love this guy Olly Murs. He was brilliant back in the day; he was someone I really, really liked.'

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

  

  Mao Zedong
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• Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.

  

  Matthias Schoenaerts
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• I didn't think of 'Thelma and Louise' as a feminist movie.

  

  Callie Khouri
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  • Feminist