Mary Harron
Mary Harron
Mary Harronis a Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter best known for her films I Shot Andy Warhol, American Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page...
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth12 January 1953
art elements film
My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films.
love-you careers ideas
At any age you can start over. You have to drop the idea of where you should be in your career. And you have to do without a lot of love. Not everyone's going to love you.
thinking people taste
If you have had some taste of success, it's extremely addicting. I think the withdrawal from that is what's most devastating. I don't think it's the success that kills people, it's the withdrawal.
stars good-luck long
I had long periods where I couldn't make things happen, and then periods of enormous good luck. I guess the trick is to keep going in the periods when you're not lucky, when your stars are not aligned.
style trying hollywood
The good part of working in TV is it's like being a studio director in old Hollywood and approaching different genres. It's a chance to try out different styles.
people important tvs
The really important people in TV are not the directors; they're the writers.
thinking ambiguity
Americans always think they have to lead. I'm interested in ambiguity.
firsts lucky film
I was lucky with my first film because it had Warhol in it. That was the selling point.
sexy made critics
There was a lot of anger among critics that I had not made a sexy movie.
girl people way
People make films about all kinds of relationships, but they won't do these extremely intense platonic love affairs that happen between young girls. In a way they are more intense than anything else you ever have, and that's what I wanted to make a film about, though it was in the context of a horror film.
film horror genre
I make unpopular versions of popular things. I make a horror film and it's not a horror film. None of my genre movies function as genre movies.
thinking giving mad
When people see the conventions, they think they're going to get the straightforward genre - I don't give them that and they get mad. People see that and they think I don't understand the conventions because I'm not a good filmmaker.
darkness actors draws
Some actors can draw from their own darkness.
bullshit people wish
There's no need to be tragic or destroy yourself or jump off a cliff. That's no longer the paradigm I wish to follow, or that anyone should follow. It is not necessary to be tragic. It's bullshit that women can't have it all. Why not? Other people do.