Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to …

- Callie Khouri

The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this m…

- Callie Khouri

Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they dont care about movies.

- Callie Khouri

I don't see the country audience looking forward to an out male singer. There are rumors about people but no one ever confirms because there is a tre…

- Callie Khouri

You can't do a movie without villains. You have to have something for the heroines or anti-heroines to be up against, and I wasn't going to contrive …

- Callie Khouri

I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't s…

- Callie Khouri

I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it t…

- Callie Khouri

I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. Yo…

- Callie Khouri

For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it jus…

- Callie Khouri