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
Let's face it - no matter how independent you are, you still have this nagging need to be desired.
Movies can tell us about our place, or lack of place, in our culture.
Maybe women sometimes wish that a man would come along and buy them.
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.
While we can work hard at improving our health, size is no more in our control than the color of our skin, our ethnicity, or our sexual preference.
Nothing feels worse than knowing that people didn't see your movie. That they wanted to and the critics loved it but nobody knew where it was because it didn't do what it was supposed to do opening weekend. It used to be that independents were allowed to stay in the theaters, build word of mouth.
It was such a struggle for me to make it off welfare. I was getting $630 a month for myself and my children with no support from their fathers. The rent was $600 a month, and if you got a job, they took it out of your welfare.
Sundance is the only hand that feeds for women directors.
When I wanted to become a filmmaker, there was nobody for me to look up to.
Unless it's something very clever like 'Memento,' most independent films have a very tough life out there.
When you're traumatized, you pick out one thing you remember more than anything else.
When 'Gas Food Lodging' was released, I had already shot 'Mi Vida Loca.'
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.
This practice of skinny actresses donning fat suits is essentially the new and acceptable blackface in Hollywood.