Allison Anders Quotes

Allison Anders

Profession : Director

Birth : November 16, 1954

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.

Allison Anders

I think that with the success of, like, VH1's 'Behind The Music' and stuff like that, the fact that it's so successful, it's clear that people are interested in rock lives.

Allison Anders

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.

Allison Anders

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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Nothing feels worse than knowing that people didn't see your movie. That they wanted to and the critics loved it but nobody knew where it was because it didn't do what it was supposed to do opening weekend. It used to be that independents were allowed to stay in the theaters, build word of mouth.

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I was a single mom.

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I was a big fan of X. I've probably seen 100 X shows during their time in the late '70s and early '80s.

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Roman Polanski is one of my favorite filmmakers, and John Phillips one of my favorite songwriters. I had the honor to meet each of these men and was almost giddy to be blessed with the chance to tell each artist what his work meant has to me.

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In the early '90s when the American independent movie started, it held personal vision as a premium. That was brilliant timing.

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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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Let's face it - no matter how independent you are, you still have this nagging need to be desired.

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Movies can tell us about our place, or lack of place, in our culture.

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Unless it's something very clever like 'Memento,' most independent films have a very tough life out there.

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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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There's a persona that musicians carry with them. I like to find what's under the persona.

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Music has always been a great solace for me. It's still something that gives me far more joy than movies, I must say. I love movies, too. But somehow, music can transport you. There are so many different kinds of experiences you can have with music.

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In 'Honeymoon in Vegas,' after Nicolas Cage tells his fiancee that he's given her away to pay for his gambling debts, she gets into a tizzy as if she were a 6-year-old. I couldn't believe it.

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The women I cast have to embody all sorts of contradictions... I have to find the right woman to speak to other women.

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I've worked on movies where there's all these people coming and going, and I don't even know who they are.

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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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