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
abandon audition came decided people sexy sweetness
When we couldn't find the right person, we decided to abandon preconceptions and look at people we hadn't thought of. She came in and her very first audition was so wonderful, so magical. She had this sweetness and innocence, but also something sexy and a little dark.
interested reaches tale
I'll be very interested to see how the film does when it reaches that audience. You can see it as a redemptive tale if you want to, as a right-minded Christian.
feature material
At first we thought there wasn't enough material to make a feature film.
rocks punk punk-rock
Punk rock, when I was a part of it, was called 'the underground.' There was something very attractive in all the hidden places, the hidden histories.
love-actually lucky firsts
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.
sexy made critics
There was a lot of anger among critics that I had not made a sexy movie.
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.
making-money i-realized
I realized you can always make money; you just do a lot of things.
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.
darkness actors draws
Some actors can draw from their own darkness.
gay men interesting
It's interesting that gay men and young women have been the twin engines of the Bettie [Page] cult.