Callie Khouri

Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it. ↗

— Callie Khouri

#chick #clear #flick #great #i

For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster. ↗

— Callie Khouri

#feature #get #getting #i #independent

I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex. ↗

— Callie Khouri

#assumptions #characters #complex #everyone #i

I think of feminism as more of a political ideology. ↗

— Callie Khouri

#i #i think #ideology #more #political

I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally. ↗

— Callie Khouri

#baseball #because #couple #get #happen

If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike. ↗

— Callie Khouri

#energy #into #marketing #might #more

Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess. ↗

— Callie Khouri

#how #i #impossible #inside #know

One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other. ↗

— Callie Khouri

#each #here #how #incredibly #just

When people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with me. ↗

— Callie Khouri

#know #louise #me #mess #people

Whenever I've seen shows or films set here, they just don't feel like the real Nashville to me. ↗

— Callie Khouri

#films #here #i #just #like