Callie Khouri Quotes

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• 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…
• If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.
• Kelly Clarkson is the most adorable person on the planet. She is just so nice.
• When you look around right now, Nashville is kind of going through another changing of guard; you're watching the Martina McBrides and the Faith Hills…
• I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.
• One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.
• When people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with me.
• 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,…
• 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…
• I don't think any studio - it was a long shot at the time - but I don't think any studio in a million years…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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,…
• Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something…
• One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go…
• 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…
• You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something…
• Would you have a friend who talks to you the way you talk to yourself?
• There are so many screenwriters with incredible stories to tell, so I hope there will be some kind of shift in the business where very…
• Whenever I've seen shows or films set here, they just don't feel like the real Nashville to me.

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