Callie Khouri Quotes

• I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.

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• 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 and all of them that have been the big stars for the last however many years, and the next generation is coming in: Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, those girls.

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• Whenever I’ve seen shows or films set here, they just don’t feel like the real Nashville to me.

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• 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 directed at women. There it’s just accepted, whereas if it’s a feature, it’s like ‘So, talk to me about chick flicks.’

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• When people know I wrote ‘Thelma and Louise,’ they don’t want to mess with me.

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• 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 movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I’d never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was.

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• One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.

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• 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 out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.

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• If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.

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• 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 they possess.

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• 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 sell internationally.

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• 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. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money.

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• 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 qualities, but like everyone, they’re complex.

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• 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 would make ‘Thelma and Louise’ right now. But there’s so many other kinds of movies they won’t make right now.

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• 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 the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I’m interested in a lot of things.

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• 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 just loses some of its luster.

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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 not clear why it’s ok to do it.

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Callie Khouri (17)

Birth:	27th November, 1957
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Film Director, Screenwriter, Television Producer

About

Callie Khouri was born in San Antonio, Texas. She is an American screenwriter, TV producer and film director. In 1992 she won the Academy Award for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for the film Thelma & Louise, which was controversial upon its release because of its progressive representation of gender politics but which subsequently became a classic. On October 10, 2012, Khouri's television series, Nashville, premiered on ABC. After college, she studied at the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute in Los Angeles. She was a member of Hollywood Women's Political Committee, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting Women's Media Watch Project. She also worked as an actress, lecturer, and waiter in Nashville.

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