I always say, what really makes a movie commercial is that it makes its money back.

- Christine Vachon

I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

- Christine Vachon

I think that when you're doing an under-four-million-dollar movie, you just can't throw money at the problems.

- Christine Vachon

There's something in the Zeitgeist now. A lot of [film] scripts I get have these very dark themes, a cornucopia of dysfunction. You know, Jane is a 1…

- Christine Vachon

Being on a set where the director has lost control is just sickening. No one goes the extra mile, theres a lot of eye-rolling... it just breeds inert…

- Christine Vachon

When a crisis occurs, I feel that one of my greatest responsibilities is to set a tone of calm no matter what the problems. Sometimes I have to fake …

- Christine Vachon

Ultimately when I throw myself behind a movie, I have to really believe in that directors vision.

- Christine Vachon

There were Hollywood movies and then there were those aggressively anti-narrative films that they showed at the Collective for Living Cinema.

- Christine Vachon

My first job, honestly, was as a proofreader. I say that a little disparagingly, but it actually was this sort of incredible thing, where I got this …

- Christine Vachon