"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

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“Us on hard drugs? That would be horrible. We'd probably end up sounding like Bryan Adams.My girlfriend has this quote in her sketchbook: Remain orderly in your life so you can be free and chaotic in your work. I think basically you lose it when you destroy your brain or destroy yourself emotionally or burn yourself up.”
“Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.”

Source : "The danger of a single story". TED Talks, www.ted.com. July 2009.
“I don't believe in rock bottom. Rock bottom is like a fishing term.”
“If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from it. Then you will find, if nature has granted you any imagination at all, that you will eventually acquire a style individual to yourself, and it cannot help being good; because your hand and your mind, being always accustomed to gather flowers, would ill know how to pluck thorns.”

Source : "Il libro dell' arte".
“If we were in tune and communing with God every moment, where would be the need to pray or ask for anything?”

Source : Daya Mata (1976). “Only Love”, Self Realization Fellowship Pub
“I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.”
“It is always the silly things that remind me”
“if there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?”

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