Top 40 Callie Khouri Quotes
#1. I'm obsessed with 'Thelma and Louise,' and therefore obsessed with Callie Khouri who wrote that movie.
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#2. I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television.
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#3. Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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#4. 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.
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#5. 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.
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#6. 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.
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#7. Kelly Clarkson is the most adorable person on the planet. She is just so nice.
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#8. The world will provide you with every imaginable obstacle, but the one most difficult to overcome will be the lack of faith in yourself. Leave it to others to have doubts about you.
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#9. '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.
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#10. I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.
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#11. I don't know anyone male or female who can quote-unquote have it all. It's a made-up idea. Men don't have it all. They may have it better because they get paid more for the same work, but they don't have it all.
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#12. We have a lot of women on the staff, obviously. It's a predominantly female writing staff and we hire the best people. It's not like we go we need more women or we need four women directing.
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#13. Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they don't care about movies.
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#14. 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.
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#15. 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.
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#16. Always, in all circumstances, wear comfortable shoes. You never know when you may have to run for your life.
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#18. 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.
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#19. 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.
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#20. One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.
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#21. To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights.
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#22. I remember when I used to have actual time to write and now you don't have time and you just do it. I think it explains a lot about television.
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#23. I didn't think of 'Thelma and Louise' as a feminist movie.
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#24. One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.
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#26. Don't let your failures define you.
Let them refine you.
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#27. 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.
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#28. Well, we're not in the middle of nowhere, but we can see it from here.
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#29. 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.
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#30. Would you have a friend who talks to you the way you talk to yourself?
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#31. I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.
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#32. If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.
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#33. I'm almost numb to misogyny at this point. It's just everywhere.
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#34. I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
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#35. Whenever I've seen shows or films set here, they just don't feel like the real Nashville to me.
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#36. 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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#37. We get the best people we can get and it turns out a lot of them are women. I've said this before If you hire people solely on their merit you wind up hiring a lot of women. I wonder how many other shows even come close to our numbers.
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#38. When people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with me.
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#39. I don't see the country audience looking forward to an out male singer. There are rumors about people but no one ever confirms because there is a tremendous amount of money at stake.
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#40. There's a lot of head-shaking and forehead-slapping when you start to realize just how deep-seated misogyny can be, how systemic and entrenched certain modes of thinking are that are still very much alive.
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