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Allison Anders Quotes

American - Director | November 16, 1954 -

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

Believe You Permanent Leave Anything

I'd be just as happy being a midwife. That's my ideal job.

Job Happy Being Just Ideal Midwife

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

Practice Suits Fat New Hollywood

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

Beauty Sex Capable Lovers Rail Thin

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.

Work Health Work Hard Control Color

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.

Girl Hope Day Me Think Fat

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 and the power of working with space.

Power Space Enough Camera Long You

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

Remember You More Out Anything Than

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

Life Tough Independent Clever Out

Nothing feels worse than knowing that people didn't see your movie. That they wanted to and the critics loved it but nobody knew where it was because it didn't do what it was supposed to do opening weekend. It used to be that independents were allowed to stay in the theaters, build word of mouth.

People Loved Weekend Mouth Nobody

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 studios.

Money World Doing Movies Hire Film

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.

Time Money End Giving You Giving Up

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