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Callie Khouri

I like writing flawed women, and being one, it’s something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

– Callie Khouri

Callie Khouri

I don’t know anyone male or female who can quote-unquote have it all. It’s a made-up idea. Men don’t have it all. They may have it better because they get paid more for the same work, but they don’t have it all.

– Callie Khouri

Callie Khouri

Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they don’t care about movies.

– Callie Khouri

Callie Khouri

What I’m not about is exploiting women.

– Callie Khouri

Callie Khouri

To me, feminism is such a simple description: it’s equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights.

– Callie Khouri

Callie Khouri

I didn’t think of ‘Thelma and Louise’ as a feminist movie.

– Callie Khouri

Callie Khouri

Every so often when I’m writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head – often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I’ve ended up where I wanted to be.

– Callie Khouri

Callie Khouri

There are so many screenwriters with incredible stories to tell, so I hope there will be some kind of shift in the business where very few types of movies are now made by the studios. There needs to be different budgets for different audiences; not everything having to be a huge opening weekend.

– Callie Khouri

Callie Khouri

Gravity’ is a great example of a movie that we hope they’re going to do more of. It’s really entertaining, with a female star. It’s not the kind of film you typically see, and gives me hope.

– Callie Khouri

Callie Khouri

I wrote ‘Thelma & Louise’ in 1988, and we shot it in 1990. Everyone kept saying, ‘This is so groundbreaking… this is going to change the landscape,’ but I don’t see that result at all. When we saw some female studio executives, we were hopeful that more women would be hired as directors, but that didn’t really seem to happen.

– Callie Khouri

Callie Khouri

When I lived in Nashville, Tanya Tucker and people like that were coming up, and I’m sure that Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette were going, ‘What’s that noise? That’s not country.’ It’s always been this battle where whoever comes up behind the reigning stars isn’t country enough. There really is a lot more crossover now.

– Callie Khouri

Callie Khouri

People always ask me about ‘Girls’ with this kind of hesitation. What do I think of it? I love it. It’s awesome. I get a lot of Where do you come down on this? I come down on the side of ‘Yay, Lena Dunham. Congratulations. I’m jealous.’ She’s doing something so fantastic. Maybe it’s not for everybody, but it certainly is for me.

– Callie Khouri

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