Lisa Cholodenko Quotes
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I just think self-satisfied people ignore certain signs about other people.
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I'm in my mid-40s now, and I came out in 11th grade, so I must have been 17. So that's quite a long time ago, and the temperature and the culture was different.
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I've done episodic television and some other things that have been written by other people.
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I had a great love affair in high school and let myself have that love affair and tried to keep it to myself.
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I feel like I've been observed as an individual more than a gay person, or as a filmmaker with a certain point of view rather than a lesbian filmmaker with a gay point of view.
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In May 2006, I had our son, Calder. I spent the next couple of years learning how to be a mom.
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I get asked why there aren't more female directors all the time. I'm kind of reluctant to talk about it. That's not because I think the question is irrelevant or stupid. It's just that there are so many mitigating factors.
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I had pretty cool parents. Still do.
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There is a core value I wanted to illuminate: No matter what kind of family you have - straight, gay, married, single parent, separated, no kids, two kids, 20 kids, whatever - we all go through the human comedy. But if the bonds are strong enough, and the desire is there, you can get to the other side, still together and still a family.
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I tend not to be so attracted to films that force me into an intellectual place over an emotional one.
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In June 2002, I had just finished 'Laurel Canyon' and decided to move back to Los Angeles after nearly a decade in New York. Post-9/11 New York felt different.
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Everyone on the planet has a dark and a light. That's a multi-dimensional character.
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I feel like if you feel good about a script, and you feel confident about your ability to direct and just capture it right, it's all just, really, really in your favor there.
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The source of so much of my anxiety in life and the tensions in my relationship is my anxiety about my kid. It's all very abstract and unfounded and ungrounded.
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I don't feel like my films are about gender; they are about identity - but a different slant on identity.
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If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.
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I was very influenced by the films of the '70s.
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Great actors help. Every project is different. Sometimes it's completely open, and I've been able to cast who I've wanted. And then sometimes people want a certain kind of actor.
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Making the choice to cast someone in a lead role is a big one. You don't want to squander your opportunity.
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I was going through some stressful stuff, and I lost feeling in my face and in my tongue. So I went to a doctor. He said he didn't think I had MS or a brain tumor. He said, 'I think you're just stressed out.'
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I was a student at SF State, and I honestly didn't know where I was headed. I thought maybe something in the social sciences. But I happened to be living with a group of people, and one person was a film student. I was always keen on and aware of what she was doing.
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This whole Oscar thing is so political. It's about how much a film grosses, and who's in it, and how well it has been promoted.
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L.A. is conventional to a hyper-real degree. It's plastic.
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There's a lot of technology out there to help people have children in different ways, and later in life, for better or worse.