Mary Harron famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It's interesting that gay men and young women have been the twin engines of the Bettie [Page] cult.
-- Mary Harron

#Gay #Men #Interesting
I wonder if Bettie Page original gay cult had something to do with the ironies inherent in her image, as well as her innate fabulousness as an image.
-- Mary Harron

#Gay #Pages #Irony
Bettie Page was the first person to do bondage as fashion, because for her it really was all about dressing up.
-- Mary Harron

#Fashion #Dressing Up #Pages
One of the secrets of being a great photographic model, as it is for a great film actor, is that you let the camera in. It's an intimacy that the model or actor creates with the lens, that then transmits itself to the viewer.
-- Mary Harron

#Secret #Actors #Cameras
She [Bettie Page] was a traumatized person, but she did have an active sex life.
-- Mary Harron

#Sex #Pages #Active
Someone can be mentally ill, but if they are young and beautiful and their life is going well, people don't notice because at that point the cracks are almost imperceptible.
-- Mary Harron

#Beautiful #People #Cracks
I don't think there is any one route to directing.... Other than that I think you just have to think 'By any means possible' and take any job you can that will get you experience. I also did a lot for free. I got paid virtually nothing for my first film, but it changed my life.
-- Mary Harron

#Jobs #Mean #Thinking
I really dislike it when women reject feminism; that's ridiculous. I am a product of feminism. Without feminism I would not be making films.
-- Mary Harron

#Feminism #Ridiculous #Film
One thing I'm not is a moralistic filmmaker. I'm not trying to tell people what to do, and I'm not trying to lead.
-- Mary Harron

#People #Trying #Filmmaker
I think morale is the hardest part, not comparing yourself to someone else. I think everyone compares themselves to someone more successful than they are. Everyone does it. You have to embrace your own rocky path.
-- Mary Harron

#Successful #Thinking #Doe
I had long periods where I couldn't make things happen, and then periods of enormous good luck. I guess the trick is to keep going in the periods when you're not lucky, when your stars are not aligned.
-- Mary Harron

#Stars #Good Luck #Long
Movies are a commitment. They take years of your life and they have big consequences. That's one of the bad things about movies - you're stuck with the aftermath.
-- Mary Harron

#Commitment #Years #Aftermath
Punk rock, when I was a part of it, was called 'the underground.' There was something very attractive in all the hidden places, the hidden histories.
-- Mary Harron

#Rocks #Punk #Punk Rock
Some actors can draw from their own darkness.
-- Mary Harron

#Darkness #Actors #Draws
I'm not trying to make the world a better place.
-- Mary Harron

#Trying #World #Better Place
Mostly I'm just not American. I spent four years of my childhood here, but I think if you're Canadian you have a very different perspective. You don't think you're at the center of things.
-- Mary Harron

#Thinking #Years #Perspective
In my early thirties I was working in television as a researcher. I was really stuck for a period of five years. I got to TV when I was thirty. I hated being a music writer, and kept wondering why I couldn't be doing the exciting things that my friends were doing in television.
-- Mary Harron

#Years #Television #Tvs
Frankly, you're always up and down. You're successful and then you're not.
-- Mary Harron

#Successful #Up And Down
I'm bored by films that revolve around a trick. I kind of know if a film is right for me; all the most important decisions are made intuitively.
-- Mary Harron

#Bored #Decision #Important
The good part of working in TV is it's like being a studio director in old Hollywood and approaching different genres. It's a chance to try out different styles.
-- Mary Harron

#Style #Trying #Directors
I make unpopular versions of popular things. I make a horror film and it's not a horror film. None of my genre movies function as genre movies.
-- Mary Harron

#Horror #Film #Genre
I think any big success is paralyzing. I have observed it in others.
-- Mary Harron

#Thinking #Bigs
I just don't think I'm an ideological filmmaker in any way. I don't know how anyone could see anything I've done and see that.
-- Mary Harron

#Thinking #Done #Way
I see that women still have self-doubt, and at the same time I feel like I see all these fantastic young women, and they all have ambition and are so focused on their futures. I don't think that's an anomaly anymore.
-- Mary Harron

#Ambition #Thinking #Self
They say that depression is anger you turn on yourself, and I think women do that.
-- Mary Harron

#Thinking #Turns #Turn-on
There's absolutely no point in beating yourself up. Focus on going forward.
-- Mary Harron

#Focus #Beating Yourself Up #No Point

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