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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. By Allison Anders Myspace Knew Music Opened Filmmakers

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. By Allison Anders Actress Pounds Fat Day Stops

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. By Allison Anders Health Size Skin Ethnicity Preference

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, music can transport you. There are so many different kinds of experiences you can have with music. By Allison Anders Movies Music Great Solace Joy

I'd be just as happy being a midwife. That's my ideal job. By Allison Anders Midwife Happy Job Ideal

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 almost giddy to be blessed with the chance to tell each artist what his work meant has to me. By Allison Anders Favorite Polanski John Phillips Roman

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. By Allison Anders Box Make Office Strongest Tools

I was a big fan of X. I've probably seen 100 X shows during their time in the late '70s and early '80s. By Allison Anders Big Fan Late Early Shows

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. By Allison Anders Jane Campion Woman Exciting Thing

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, survivors. By Allison Anders Victims Rescuers Survivors Trauma People

I think when I got drawn to film, I didn't know it was a business. I mean, like most filmmakers, I probably saw more films than a lot of people when I was a kid. But I watched them on TV as well. I was no purist about it. I spent lots of time in movie theaters, but I also watched a lot of films on TV. By Allison Anders Business Films Lot Drawn Watched

This practice of skinny actresses donning fat suits is essentially the new and acceptable blackface in Hollywood. By Allison Anders Hollywood Practice Skinny Actresses Donning

The women I cast have to embody all sorts of contradictions ... I have to find the right woman to speak to other women. By Allison Anders Contradictions Women Cast Embody Sorts

I love showing off my tattoos. By Allison Anders Tattoos Love Showing

Let's face it - no matter how independent you are, you still have this nagging need to be desired. By Allison Anders Desired Face Matter Independent Nagging

You still get the movies made. A filmmaker can always scrape up money to do a movie. The passion drives it. And you'll get the money. Money's the easiest thing. But the hardest thing is finding a way for people to see your movie. By Allison Anders Made Money Movie Thing Movies

Unless it's something very clever like 'Memento,' most independent films have a very tough life out there. By Allison Anders Memento Clever Independent Films Tough

Do we have to be rail thin to possess 'outer beauty' and sex appeal and to be capable of attracting lovers? By Allison Anders Possess Outer Beauty Lovers Rail

When you're traumatized, you pick out one thing you remember more than anything else. By Allison Anders Traumatized Pick Thing Remember

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. By Allison Anders Make Movie Head End Giving

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. By Allison Anders Movie Feels Worse Knowing People

In the early '90s when the American independent movie started, it held personal vision as a premium. That was brilliant timing. By Allison Anders American Early Started Premium Independent

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. By Allison Anders Characters Felt Deep Owned Actors

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. By Allison Anders Movies Lot Indie Film World

I've been amazed watching people who are not ready with their scripts when they're getting a lot of attention. By Allison Anders Attention Amazed Watching People Ready

Sundance is the only hand that feeds for women directors. By Allison Anders Sundance Directors Hand Feeds Women

Because I came from the working class, I still identify with them. I don't identify with the middle class. By Allison Anders Class Identify Working Middle

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. By Allison Anders Important Stories Movies God Disappear

Movies can tell us about our place, or lack of place, in our culture. By Allison Anders Place Movies Culture Lack

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

Art should never be held above our decency to each other. By Allison Anders Art Held Decency

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. By Allison Anders Music Successful Lives Success Stuff

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. By Allison Anders Honeymoon Vegas Nicolas Cage Debts

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. By Allison Anders Nowadays Composition Movie Camera Long

Maybe women sometimes wish that a man would come along and buy them. By Allison Anders Women Man Buy

When I wanted to become a filmmaker, there was nobody for me to look up to. By Allison Anders Filmmaker Wanted

Because I'm one of five people in Los Angeles who doesn't drive, I walk a lot. By Allison Anders Los Angeles Drive Lot People

I don't believe you ever get closure on anything. Things leave a permanent mark on you. By Allison Anders Closure Things Leave Permanent Mark

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. By Allison Anders Polanski Cinema Work Filmmakers Imprint

There's never been a 'girl wonder' mythology. By Allison Anders Mythology Girl

I was a single mom. By Allison Anders Mom Single

I've worked on movies where there's all these people coming and going, and I don't even know who they are. By Allison Anders Worked Movies People Coming

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. By Allison Anders Welfare Struggle Make Month Fathers

There's a persona that musicians carry with them. I like to find what's under the persona. By Allison Anders Persona Musicians Carry Find

The first thing I did for TV was a pilot for CBS. By Allison Anders Cbs Thing Pilot