Callie Khouri famous quotes

03-28-2025

I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.
-- Callie Khouri

#Thinking #Political #Feminism
I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
-- Callie Khouri

#Writing #Authority #Feels
Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they dont care about movies.
-- Callie Khouri

#Dont Care #Giants #Care
You can't do a movie without villains. You have to have something for the heroines or anti-heroines to be up against, and I wasn't going to contrive some monstrous female, but even if this were the most men-bashing movie ever made-let all us women get guns and kill men-it wouldn't even begin to make up for the 99% of all movies where the women are there to be caricatured as bimbos or to be skinned and decapitated. If men feel uncomfortable in the audience it is because they are identifying with the wrong character.
-- Callie Khouri

#Character #Gun #Men
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.
-- Callie Khouri

#Nashville #Special #Looks
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.
-- Callie Khouri

#Country #Nashville #Reason
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.
-- Callie Khouri

#Crowds #Faces #Saws
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.
-- Callie Khouri

#Television #Like You #Accepted
Would you have a friend who talks to you the way you talk to yourself?
-- Callie Khouri

#Way
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.
-- Callie Khouri

#Confidence #Doubt #Overcoming
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.
-- Callie Khouri

#Sports #Baseball #Couple
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.
-- Callie Khouri

#Men #Thinking #People
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.
-- Callie Khouri

#Character #Thinking #Quality
If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.
-- Callie Khouri

#Marketing #Energy #Might
Kelly Clarkson is the most adorable person on the planet. She is just so nice.
-- Callie Khouri

#Nice #Adorable #Planets
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.
-- Callie Khouri

#Girl #Stars #Nashville
One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.
-- Callie Khouri

#Nashville #People #Support
When people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with me.
-- Callie Khouri

#People #Want #Thelma And Louise
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.
-- Callie Khouri

#Independent #Like You #Selling
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

#Feminist #Would Be #Deny
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.
-- Callie Khouri

#Thinking #Years #Long
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.
-- Callie Khouri

#Sarcastic #Way #Praise

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