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
ambition thinking self
I see that women still have self-doubt, and at the same time I feel like I see all these fantastic young women, and they all have ambition and are so focused on their futures. I don't think that's an anomaly anymore.
thinking turns turn-on
They say that depression is anger you turn on yourself, and I think women do that.
thinking bigs
I think any big success is paralyzing. I have observed it in others.
thinking done way
I just don't think I'm an ideological filmmaker in any way. I don't know how anyone could see anything I've done and see that.
thinking doe hollywood
I grew up interested in the underside of Hollywood, which I think David Lynch does really well.
thinking years perspective
Mostly I'm just not American. I spent four years of my childhood here, but I think if you're Canadian you have a very different perspective. You don't think you're at the center of things.
successful thinking doe
I think morale is the hardest part, not comparing yourself to someone else. I think everyone compares themselves to someone more successful than they are. Everyone does it. You have to embrace your own rocky path.
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.
thinking ambiguity
Americans always think they have to lead. I'm interested in ambiguity.
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.
jobs mean thinking
I don't think there is any one route to directing.... Other than that I think you just have to think 'By any means possible' and take any job you can that will get you experience. I also did a lot for free. I got paid virtually nothing for my first film, but it changed my life.
attracted attractive hidden punk
Certainly, I've always been attracted to that. 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,
blatant modern naughty nice people played sexiness understanding
She was very much of the period, ... A lot of people played it too sexy, in a very modern way. And I think Gretchen had a very instinctive understanding of the sexiness of a very different time. You have to go back before Playboy, before the outright, blatant sexiness to something more hidden, teasing, more of the nice girl. Naughty but nice.
crossing gloves wearing white
She's sexy, but she's very ladylike. There is something kind of 1950s about her, like she's wearing white gloves or crossing her ankles.