I've worked on movies where there's all these peop... -Allison Anders

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

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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.

Allison Anders Quotes to Explore

During the '90s, a lot of us in the indie film world were not making our money off our movies. We were screenwriters doing scripts for hire for studio...
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...
I've worked on movies where there's all these people coming and going, and I don't even know who they are....
Movies can tell us about our place, or lack of place, in our culture....
Music has always been a great solace for me. It's still something that gives me far more joy than movies, I must say. I love movies, too. But somehow,...
Nowadays you don't get to see composition in a movie because nobody ever keeps the camera still long enough to see it. Actors don't have the thrill an...
Roman Polanski is one of my favorite filmmakers, and John Phillips one of my favorite songwriters. I had the honor to meet each of these men and was a...
Art should never be held above our decency to each other....
Trauma creates one of four types of people: victims, rescuers, or perps - and if you're really lucky and really strong and very willing and brave, sur...
This practice of skinny actresses donning fat suits is essentially the new and acceptable blackface in Hollywood....

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I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids....
Many times I'll improvise it, which isn't done a lot in movies or commercials. But a lot of my commercials are improvised....
People in third-world countries are less eager to see movies full of angst over existential problems, and who can blame them. They've got other fish t...
During the '90s, a lot of us in the indie film world were not making our money off our movies. We were screenwriters doing scripts for hire for studio...
The truth of the matter is movies are a reflection of life and violence is a real part of life. I don't think you could make movies exclusively where ...
In the kind of films that I do, there is an extremely limited number of people that can improvise. The reason the ensemble continues in the movies is ...
I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots of great special eff...
I like superhero films, and I love Star Wars movies, but I want to make sure there's a wide diaspora of films getting made....
I'd loved 'Iron Man,' you know, with a passion. I thought that was the most fresh, cool thing, in terms of superhero movies, that I'd seen in a long t...
I loved all movies, literally. I certainly loved 'Shane' and 'Roxie Hart.' Later on, when I was less of a kid, I loved 'L'Avventura' and 'Persona' and...