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" 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. "

Allison Anders

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Choice

" 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. "

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

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You

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

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Place

Movies

" 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. "

" 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. "

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Film

Doing

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I love showing off my tattoos. "

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

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

Allison Anders

Independent

Life

" 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. "

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

" 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 '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. "

" Maybe women sometimes wish that a man would come along and buy them. "

" The first thing I did for TV was a pilot for CBS. "

Allison Anders

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Thing

" 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. "