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" The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was. "

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Inside

Nashville

" What I'm mainly interested in is not having women characters that have to be perfect, obviously. That's something I feel strongly about and have that in every single thing I've ever done. "

" Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess. "

" You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.' "

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" I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things. "

Callie Khouri

Pretty

Myself

" One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other. "

" I don't think any studio - it was a long shot at the time - but I don't think any studio in a million years would make 'Thelma and Louise' right now. But there's so many other kinds of movies they won't make right now. "

" To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights. "

Callie Khouri

Rights

Simple

" I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money. "

" Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it. "

" When people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with me. "

" I'm almost numb to misogyny at this point. It's just everywhere. "

" I think of feminism as more of a political ideology. "

Callie Khouri

Think

Feminism

" Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience. "

" 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. "

" Whenever I've seen shows or films set here, they just don't feel like the real Nashville to me. "

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Real

Here

" 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. "

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Think

People

" If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike. "

" I'm not musical myself. "

Callie Khouri

Myself

Musical

" I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex. "

" When you look around right now, Nashville is kind of going through another changing of guard; you're watching the Martina McBrides and the Faith Hills and all of them that have been the big stars for the last however many years, and the next generation is coming in: Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, those girls. "

" I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television. "

" For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster. "

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