Allison Anders
Allison Anders
Allison Andersis an American independent film director whose films include Gas Food Lodging, Mi Vida Loca and Grace of My Heart. Anders has collaborated with fellow UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television graduate Kurt Voss and has also worked as a television director. Anders' films have been shown at the Cannes International Film Festival and at the Sundance Film Festival. She has been awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant as well as a Peabody Award...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth16 November 1954
CityAshland, KY
CountryUnited States of America
Maybe women sometimes wish that a man would come along and buy them.
Let's face it - no matter how independent you are, you still have this nagging need to be desired.
Music has always been a great solace for me. It's still something that gives me far more joy than movies, I must say. I love movies, too. But somehow, music can transport you. There are so many different kinds of experiences you can have with music.
Roman Polanski is one of my favorite filmmakers, and John Phillips one of my favorite songwriters. I had the honor to meet each of these men and was almost giddy to be blessed with the chance to tell each artist what his work meant has to me.
Do we have to be rail thin to possess 'outer beauty' and sex appeal and to be capable of attracting lovers?
The women I cast have to embody all sorts of contradictions... I have to find the right woman to speak to other women.
I've worked on movies where there's all these people coming and going, and I don't even know who they are.
I've been amazed watching people who are not ready with their scripts when they're getting a lot of attention.
This practice of skinny actresses donning fat suits is essentially the new and acceptable blackface in Hollywood.
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.
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.
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.
When I wanted to become a filmmaker, there was nobody for me to look up to.
In the early '90s when the American independent movie started, it held personal vision as a premium. That was brilliant timing.