- Nov 07, 2020
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- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television.
- Romantic
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- Nov 07, 2020
With female-oriented movies, unless it's something like 'Bridesmaids' or a romantic comedy, you've got to really worry about your opening weekend. And I'm always telling stories about women, not younger women, and it's just a much tougher audience to get to the movie theater.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People always ask me about 'Girls' with this kind of hesitation. What do I think of it? I love it. It's awesome. I get a lot of Where do you come down on this? I come down on the side of 'Yay, Lena Dunham. Congratulations. I'm jealous.' She's doing something so fantastic. Maybe it's not for everybody, but it certainly is for me.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I lived in Nashville, Tanya Tucker and people like that were coming up, and I'm sure that Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette were going, 'What's that noise? That's not country.' It's always been this battle where whoever comes up behind the reigning stars isn't country enough. There really is a lot more crossover now.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote 'Thelma & Louise' in 1988, and we shot it in 1990. Everyone kept saying, 'This is so groundbreaking... this is going to change the landscape,' but I don't see that result at all. When we saw some female studio executives, we were hopeful that more women would be hired as directors, but that didn't really seem to happen.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Gravity' is a great example of a movie that we hope they're going to do more of. It's really entertaining, with a female star. It's not the kind of film you typically see, and gives me hope.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 few types of movies are now made by the studios. There needs to be different budgets for different audiences; not everything having to be a huge opening weekend.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
- Louise
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't think of 'Thelma and Louise' as a feminist movie.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights.
- Exploiting
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I'm not about is exploiting women.
- don't Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they don't care about movies.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020