50 Quotes by Mary Harron

It's interesting that gay men and young women have been the twin engines of the Bettie [Page] cult.

I realized you can always make money; you just do a lot of things.

Frankly, you're always up and down. You're successful and then you're not.

In my early thirties I was working in television as a researcher. I was really stuck for a period of five years. I got to TV when I was thirty. I hated being a music writer, and kept wondering why I couldn't be doing the exciting things that my friends were doing in television.

I think any big success is paralyzing. I have observed it in others.

It's hard when your first thing is something everyone loves. Actually, that never happened to me. I was lucky that my first film, which is actually the best reviewed of all my films, didn't have that success.

I just don't think I'm an ideological filmmaker in any way. I don't know how anyone could see anything I've done and see that.

I'm not trying to make the world a better place.

Growing up, I was lucky that my dad was never out of work. I was very fortunate in one way: that I never experienced real hardship, because my dad is this real dynamo. He was always working, so I had a sense of the ups and downs and endless disappointments, but at the same time I was never worried that we couldn't eat or pay the bills.