Lisa Cholodenko
Lisa Cholodenko
Lisa Cholodenko is an American screenwriter and director of film and television. She has made the films High Art, Laurel Canyon and The Kids Are All Right...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth5 June 1964
CitySan Fernando Valley, CA
CountryUnited States of America
base gut instinct tells weird women
At the base of it, my gut instinct tells me that there's a kind of fundamental misogyny in the culture. There just is. You know, there's just a weird anxiety around women.
cast certain great people
Great actors help. Every project is different. Sometimes it's completely open, and I've been able to cast who I've wanted. And then sometimes people want a certain kind of actor.
films grab particular women
I don't know if my films are about women in a kind of frolicking - here's a grab bag of women's issues. They are about women of substance with very particular stories.
certain filmmaker individual observed point rather
I feel like I've been observed as an individual more than a gay person, or as a filmmaker with a certain point of view rather than a lesbian filmmaker with a gay point of view.