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 some monstrous female, but even if this were the most men-bashing movie ever made-let all us women get guns and kill men-it wouldn't even begin to make up for the 99% of all movies where the women are there to be caricatured as bimbos or to be skinned and decapitated. If men feel uncomfortable in the audience it is because they are identifying with the wrong character.
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
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
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 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…
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
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…
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 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…
I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming… - Callie Khouri
I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming…
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
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 …
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
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…
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
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…
Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they dont care about movies. - Callie Khouri
Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they dont care about movies.
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