Callie Khouri Quotes

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

Great, Why, Used

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

Movies, Down, Made

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

Work, Hard, Pretty

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

Time, Movies, Long

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

Love, Place, Start

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

Political, Feminism, Ideology

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

Life, Money, Women

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, Woman, Baseball

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

Women, Movies, Same

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

Someone, Special, Impossible

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

Here, Support, Talented

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

Music, Country, Place

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

Times, Face, Movie

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

Mess, Wrote, Louise

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

Faith, Through, Big

Whenever I've seen shows or films set here, they just don't feel like the real Nashville to me.
Callie Khouri

Real, Here, Seen

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

Women, Through, Made

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: November 27, 1957

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