Anna Boden Quotes

Anna Boden

Profession : Director

Birth : October 20, 1979

It's nice to work with the same people. You don't have to be polite. You know each other's likes and dislikes, and you don't have to micromanage and look at what they're doing every moment.

Anna Boden

We weren't big 'Notebook' fans or anything.

Anna Boden

When we look to cast somebody who hasn't had any acting experience before, it's really essential we find somebody who at some level can just be themselves and who shares a lot in common with the character.

Anna Boden

The truth is we were never considered for 'Guardians of the Galaxy.' It was misprinted. I think there was another directing team that had been considered.

Anna Boden

I think I was 10 when I saw my first R-rated movie, 'Stand by Me,' in the theater.

Anna Boden

We want to push our characters to do things that make us question whether we ought to be their friend or even follow them.

Anna Boden

We knew a little bit about Carol Danvers, but we certainly hadn't read all the comics and didn't know all her history.

Anna Boden

I don't have an inflated sense of what a movie can do. But you can at least try not to put something out there that you don't believe in.

Anna Boden

I think that what is exciting to us about 'Robocop' was this idea of a character who's finding himself and finding his past and even though it's a dark movie it's also extremely emotional in that way.

Anna Boden

The first time Brie Larson was really on our radar as somebody who we wanted to work with was 'Short Term 12.'

Anna Boden

It would be great to be able to make a living by making films.

Anna Boden

There are studios out there and we have met them who take the movie away from the filmmaker and don't want them to have input. But that's not with Marvel.

Anna Boden

Emotionally, I don't feel like a trailblazer at all.

Anna Boden

The list of movies that 'Captain Marvel' is a love letter to is very expansive and strange.

Anna Boden

I've talked to a lot of directors who direct solo like most directors. And they're always like, 'Oh, man I wish I had somebody I could direct with because it's a lot of work.'

Anna Boden

We can always connect with all of our characters on a human level, but a lot of them took a lot of observation and exploration and talking with people. And we absolutely embrace our actors' perspectives on all that.

Anna Boden

You want the character to keep being able to grow through the process of writing, through the process of filming, and editing, you want to discover things about that character.

Anna Boden

I think always whenever we're casting a movie, it's about sitting down with somebody and feeling in them some kind of the element of who our character is.

Anna Boden

My parents were basketball people.

Anna Boden

You get told a lot in school to tell what you know, write what you know. But what excites me about filmmaking, about being a storyteller, is being able to learn about other people, putting myself in somebody else's shoes, whether that be someone from the Dominican Republic or someone from Cuba or inner-city Brooklyn.

Anna Boden