Allison Anders Quotes

Allison Anders is an American film and television director. She has directed films such as "Gas Food Lodging" and "Grace of My Heart" and has worked on television series such as "Orange Is the New Black" and "Riverdale." Anders' contributions to filmmaking have earned her recognition and acclaim.

I hope the next actress offered millions to play the 'fat girl for the day' stops to think about this before she signs the contract - even if just to ask, like any professional actress would in any other situation, 'Why does she weigh 350 pounds? And why me for the part?' If the director can't answer these questions, don't do the movie.

I've worked on movies where there's all these people coming and going, and I don't even know who they are.

When 'Gas Food Lodging' was released, I had alread... -Allison Anders

When 'Gas Food Lodging' was released, I had already shot 'Mi Vida Loca.'

I had breast cancer. I caught it early.... -Allison Anders

I had breast cancer. I caught it early.

When I wanted to become a filmmaker, there was nob... -Allison Anders

When I wanted to become a filmmaker, there was nobody for me to look up to.

Movies can tell us about our place, or lack of pla... -Allison Anders

Movies can tell us about our place, or lack of place, in our culture.

Discovering the context

The quote suggests that movies possess the ability to reflect and provide insights into the societal and cultural context in which they are created. It implies that films can serve as a mirror to reveal aspects of our position or identity within the broader cultural landscape.

The women I cast have to embody all sorts of contradictions... I have to find the right woman to speak to other women.

There's never been a 'girl wonder' mythology.... -Allison Anders

There's never been a 'girl wonder' mythology.

My work is better, maybe all filmmakers are better, for Polanski's imprint on cinema. He created language for all of us to use, there is no question about that.

While we can work hard at improving our health, size is no more in our control than the color of our skin, our ethnicity, or our sexual preference.

Art should never be held above our decency to each... -Allison Anders

Art should never be held above our decency to each other.

When you're traumatized, you pick out one thing yo... -Allison Anders

When you're traumatized, you pick out one thing you remember more than anything else.

I think that with the success of, like, VH1's 'Behind The Music' and stuff like that, the fact that it's so successful, it's clear that people are interested in rock lives.

I've been amazed watching people who are not ready with their scripts when they're getting a lot of attention.

Before, I just don't think we knew how much music was out there; now with MySpace, it's really opened it up. Filmmakers have so much more choice.

Because I'm one of five people in Los Angeles who ... -Allison Anders

Because I'm one of five people in Los Angeles who doesn't drive, I walk a lot.

I had always felt deep down that I owned the characters. Much as I adored and cherished the work of my actors, I felt that they were cast to do and be what I could not physically do or be.

Box office is one of the strongest tools we have toward preserving our ability to make our movies. We really can make a difference by purchasing a ticket each opening weekend to a movie made by a woman, even if you don't like the movie or the filmmaker and even if you don't see the film.

This practice of skinny actresses donning fat suits is essentially the new and acceptable blackface in Hollywood.

Unless it's something very clever like 'Memento,' most independent films have a very tough life out there.

I don't believe you ever get closure on anything. ... -Allison Anders

I don't believe you ever get closure on anything. Things leave a permanent mark on you.

It was such a struggle for me to make it off welfare. I was getting $630 a month for myself and my children with no support from their fathers. The rent was $600 a month, and if you got a job, they took it out of your welfare.

You end up giving up half your salary every time you make a movie because you need the money to make the movie you have in your head.

I don't know that movies are important. But I know that stories are important. Movies may disappear. They've only been around, for God's sake, for the last hundred years... I think that it's the need to tell stories, and that people need to be told stories. It's the old sitting around the fire, you know.

In the early '90s when the American independent movie started, it held personal vision as a premium. That was brilliant timing.

For me, the most exciting thing is that Jane Campion is a woman we can all really look up to. She doesn't have the body of work that some other directors do - no woman director does - but her work is so consistently original, wonderful, masterful.

In 'Honeymoon in Vegas,' after Nicolas Cage tells his fiancee that he's given her away to pay for his gambling debts, she gets into a tizzy as if she were a 6-year-old. I couldn't believe it.

I was a single mom.... -Allison Anders

I was a single mom.

Let's face it - no matter how independent you are,... -Allison Anders

Let's face it - no matter how independent you are, you still have this nagging need to be desired.

Do we have to be rail thin to possess 'outer beauty' and sex appeal and to be capable of attracting lovers?

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