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Allison Anders

American, Director

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Think I Think Behind

I think that with the success of, like, VH1's 'Behind The Music' and stuff like that, the fact that it's so successful, it's clear that people are interested in rock lives.

- Allison Anders

Beauty Rail Attracting

Do we have to be rail thin to possess 'outer beauty' and sex appeal and to be capable of attracting lovers?

- Allison Anders

I Think Been Hundred

I don't know that movies are important. But I know that stories are important. Movies may disappear. They've only been around, for God's sake, for the last hundred years... I think that it's the need to tell stories, and that people need to be told stories. It's the old sitting around the fire, you know.

- Allison Anders

Middle Still Identify

Because I came from the working class, I still identify with them. I don't identify with the middle class.

- Allison Anders

Culture Movies Tell

Movies can tell us about our place, or lack of place, in our culture.

- Allison Anders

Happy Midwife Ideal

I'd be just as happy being a midwife. That's my ideal job.

- Allison Anders

Breast Cancer Caught Had

I had breast cancer. I caught it early.

- Allison Anders

Woman Other Some

For me, the most exciting thing is that Jane Campion is a woman we can all really look up to. She doesn't have the body of work that some other directors do - no woman director does - but her work is so consistently original, wonderful, masterful.

- Allison Anders

Art Never Other

Art should never be held above our decency to each other.

- Allison Anders

Independent Very Films

Unless it's something very clever like 'Memento,' most independent films have a very tough life out there.

- Allison Anders

People Los Angeles Angeles

Because I'm one of five people in Los Angeles who doesn't drive, I walk a lot.

- Allison Anders

Love Tattoos I Love

I love showing off my tattoos.

- Allison Anders

Lucky Trauma Very

Trauma creates one of four types of people: victims, rescuers, or perps - and if you're really lucky and really strong and very willing and brave, survivors.

- Allison Anders

Doing Making Indie

During the '90s, a lot of us in the indie film world were not making our money off our movies. We were screenwriters doing scripts for hire for studios.

- Allison Anders

Leave Permanent Ever

I don't believe you ever get closure on anything. Things leave a permanent mark on you.

- Allison Anders

Deep Always Deep Down

I had always felt deep down that I owned the characters. Much as I adored and cherished the work of my actors, I felt that they were cast to do and be what I could not physically do or be.

- Allison Anders

Believe Gambling Away

In 'Honeymoon in Vegas,' after Nicolas Cage tells his fiancee that he's given her away to pay for his gambling debts, she gets into a tizzy as if she were a 6-year-old. I couldn't believe it.

- Allison Anders

People Movies Going

I've worked on movies where there's all these people coming and going, and I don't even know who they are.

- Allison Anders

Giving Up Half Movie

You end up giving up half your salary every time you make a movie because you need the money to make the movie you have in your head.

- Allison Anders

Still Movie Nowadays

Nowadays you don't get to see composition in a movie because nobody ever keeps the camera still long enough to see it. Actors don't have the thrill and the power of working with space.

- Allison Anders

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