Zitat des Tages von Allison Anders:
Unless it's something very clever like 'Memento,' most independent films have a very tough life out there.
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.
This practice of skinny actresses donning fat suits is essentially the new and acceptable blackface in Hollywood.
Sundance is the only hand that feeds for women directors.
The first thing I did for TV was a pilot for CBS.
I've been amazed watching people who are not ready with their scripts when they're getting a lot of attention.
There's never been a 'girl wonder' mythology.
I don't believe you ever get closure on anything. Things leave a permanent mark on you.
Maybe women sometimes wish that a man would come along and buy them.
Let's face it - no matter how independent you are, you still have this nagging need to be desired.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I was a big fan of X. I've probably seen 100 X shows during their time in the late '70s and early '80s.
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.
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.