Allison Anders Quotes
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You end up giving up half your salary every time you make a movie because you need the money to make the movie you have in your head.
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Sundance is the only hand that feeds for women directors.
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I've been amazed watching people who are not ready with their scripts when they're getting a lot of attention.
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I hope the next actress offered millions to play the 'fat girl for the day' stops to think about this before she signs the contract - even if just to ask, like any professional actress would in any other situation, 'Why does she weigh 350 pounds? And why me for the part?' If the director can't answer these questions, don't do the movie.
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For me, the most exciting thing is that Jane Campion is a woman we can all really look up to. She doesn't have the body of work that some other directors do - no woman director does - but her work is so consistently original, wonderful, masterful.
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Movies can tell us about our place, or lack of place, in our culture.
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Art should never be held above our decency to each other.
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I had breast cancer. I caught it early.
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I had always felt deep down that I owned the characters. Much as I adored and cherished the work of my actors, I felt that they were cast to do and be what I could not physically do or be.
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I don't know that movies are important. But I know that stories are important. Movies may disappear. They've only been around, for God's sake, for the last hundred years... I think that it's the need to tell stories, and that people need to be told stories. It's the old sitting around the fire, you know.
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Maybe women sometimes wish that a man would come along and buy them.
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During the '90s, a lot of us in the indie film world were not making our money off our movies. We were screenwriters doing scripts for hire for studios.
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When 'Gas Food Lodging' was released, I had already shot 'Mi Vida Loca.'
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I was a single mom.
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While we can work hard at improving our health, size is no more in our control than the color of our skin, our ethnicity, or our sexual preference.
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Let's face it - no matter how independent you are, you still have this nagging need to be desired.
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This practice of skinny actresses donning fat suits is essentially the new and acceptable blackface in Hollywood.
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I don't believe you ever get closure on anything. Things leave a permanent mark on you.
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Nowadays you don't get to see composition in a movie because nobody ever keeps the camera still long enough to see it. Actors don't have the thrill and the power of working with space.
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The first thing I did for TV was a pilot for CBS.
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Before, I just don't think we knew how much music was out there; now with MySpace, it's really opened it up. Filmmakers have so much more choice.
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Do we have to be rail thin to possess 'outer beauty' and sex appeal and to be capable of attracting lovers?
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Trauma creates one of four types of people: victims, rescuers, or perps - and if you're really lucky and really strong and very willing and brave, survivors.
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I'd be just as happy being a midwife. That's my ideal job.