Quotes by Callie Khouri

About Callie Khouri:

Carolyn Ann "Callie" Khouri is an American film and television screenwriter, producer, feminist, and director. In 1992 she won the Academy Award for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for the film Thelma & Louise, which was controversial upon its release because of its progressive representation of gender politics but which subsequently became a classic; and, the film was first released in May 1991. On October 10, 2012, Khouri's television series, Nashville, premiered on ABC. The critics awarded it strong reviews. In 2006, Callie Khouri also contributed on two movies, Hollis and Rae and Wanderlust, but released her last movie, Mad Money (film) in the year of 2008.
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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 e...

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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...

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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 th...

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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.

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'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.

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When you look around right now, Nashville is kind of going through another changing of guard; you're watching the Martina McBrides and the Faith Hills and all of them that have been the big stars for the last however many years, and the next generati...

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I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace yo...

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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.

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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 s...

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The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watc...

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

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

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

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I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.

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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.

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

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

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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.

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There's a lot of head-shaking and forehead-slapping when you start to realize just how deep-seated misogyny can be, how systemic and entrenched certain modes of thinking are that are still very much alive.

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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...

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Author Bio

  • NameCallie Khouri
  • DescriptionAmerican screenwriter, producer and director
  • AliasesCarolyn Ann Khouri; Carolyn Khouri
  • BornNovember 27, 1957
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Film Director; Film Producer; Playwright
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Writing (Original Screenplay); Writers Guild Of America Award