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

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

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 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

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

- 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 remember when I used to have actual time to write and now you don't have time and you just do it. I think it explains a lot about television.

- 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