46 Quotes by Allison Anders

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.

You still get the movies made. A filmmaker can always scrape up money to do a movie. The passion drives it. And you'll get the money. Money's the easiest thing. But the hardest thing is finding a way for people to see your movie.

This practice of skinny actresses donning fat suits is essentially the new and acceptable blackface in Hollywood.

There's a persona that musicians carry with them. I like to find what's under the persona.

It was such a struggle for me to make it off welfare. I was getting $630 a month for myself and my children with no support from their fathers. The rent was $600 a month, and if you got a job, they took it out of your welfare.

Sundance is the only hand that feeds for women directors.

Nothing feels worse than knowing that people didn't see your movie. That they wanted to and the critics loved it but nobody knew where it was because it didn't do what it was supposed to do opening weekend. It used to be that independents were allowed to stay in the theaters, build word of mouth.

I was a big fan of X. I've probably seen 100 X shows during their time in the late '70s and early '80s.

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