Allison Anders Quotes

Allison Anders

Profession : Director

Birth : November 16, 1954

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.

Allison Anders

I love showing off my tattoos.

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Sundance is the only hand that feeds for women directors.

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I had breast cancer. I caught it early.

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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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It was such a struggle for me to make it off welfare. I was getting $630 a month for myself and my children with no support from their fathers. The rent was $600 a month, and if you got a job, they took it out of your welfare.

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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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You still get the movies made. A filmmaker can always scrape up money to do a movie. The passion drives it. And you'll get the money. Money's the easiest thing. But the hardest thing is finding a way for people to see your movie.

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When 'Gas Food Lodging' was released, I had already shot 'Mi Vida Loca.'

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I think when I got drawn to film, I didn't know it was a business. I mean, like most filmmakers, I probably saw more films than a lot of people when I was a kid. But I watched them on TV as well. I was no purist about it. I spent lots of time in movie theaters, but I also watched a lot of films on TV.

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My work is better, maybe all filmmakers are better, for Polanski's imprint on cinema. He created language for all of us to use, there is no question about that.

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When I wanted to become a filmmaker, there was nobody for me to look up to.

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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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There's never been a 'girl wonder' mythology.

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The first thing I did for TV was a pilot for CBS.

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Because I came from the working class, I still identify with them. I don't identify with the middle class.

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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'd be just as happy being a midwife. That's my ideal job.

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Box office is one of the strongest tools we have toward preserving our ability to make our movies. We really can make a difference by purchasing a ticket each opening weekend to a movie made by a woman, even if you don't like the movie or the filmmaker and even if you don't see the film.

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Maybe women sometimes wish that a man would come along and buy them.

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