Latest Mary Harron Quotes from Interviews

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• I had long periods where I couldn't make things happen, and then periods of enormous good luck. I guess the trick is to keep going in the periods when you're not lucky, when your stars are not aligned.

  Mary Harron

  Stars, Good Luck, Long

  Interview with Anisse Gross, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

• There's no need to be tragic or destroy yourself or jump off a cliff. That's no longer the paradigm I wish to follow, or that anyone should follow. It is not necessary to be tragic. It's bullshit that women can't have it all. Why not? Other people do.

  Mary Harron

  People, Bullshit, Wish

  Interview with Anisse Gross, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

• At any age you can start over. You have to drop the idea of where you should be in your career. And you have to do without a lot of love. Not everyone's going to love you.

  Mary Harron

  Love You, Careers, Ideas

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

• 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.

  Mary Harron

  Thinking, People, Withdrawal

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

• My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films.

  Mary Harron

  Art, Elements, Film

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

• There's absolutely no point in beating yourself up. Focus on going forward.

  Mary Harron

  Focus, Beating Yourself Up, No Point

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

• 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.

  Mary Harron

  Successful, Thinking, Doe

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

• 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.

  Mary Harron

  Ambition, Thinking, Self

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

• They say that depression is anger you turn on yourself, and I think women do that.

  Mary Harron

  Thinking, Turns, Turn-on

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

• Movies are a commitment. They take years of your life and they have big consequences. That's one of the bad things about movies - you're stuck with the aftermath.

  Mary Harron

  Commitment, Years, Aftermath

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

• I'm bored by films that revolve around a trick. I kind of know if a film is right for me; all the most important decisions are made intuitively.

  Mary Harron

  Bored, Decision, Important

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

• The good part of working in TV is it's like being a studio director in old Hollywood and approaching different genres. It's a chance to try out different styles.

  Mary Harron

  Style, Trying, Directors

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

• Some actors can draw from their own darkness.

  Mary Harron

  Darkness, Actors, Draws

  Interview with Anisse Gross, logger.believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

• The really important people in TV are not the directors; they're the writers.

  Mary Harron

  People, Important, Tvs

  Interview with Anisse Gross, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

• 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.

  Mary Harron

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: www.believermag.com

• People make films about all kinds of relationships, but they won't do these extremely intense platonic love affairs that happen between young girls. In a way they are more intense than anything else you ever have, and that's what I wanted to make a film about, though it was in the context of a horror film.

  Mary Harron

  Girl, People, Way

  Source: www.believermag.com

• I make unpopular versions of popular things. I make a horror film and it's not a horror film. None of my genre movies function as genre movies.

  Mary Harron

  Horror, Film, Genre

  Source: www.believermag.com

• There was a lot of anger among critics that I had not made a sexy movie.

  Mary Harron

  Sexy, Made, Critics

  Source: www.believermag.com

• I was lucky with my first film because it had Warhol in it. That was the selling point.

  Mary Harron

  Lucky, Firsts, Film

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

• One thing I'm not is a moralistic filmmaker. I'm not trying to tell people what to do, and I'm not trying to lead.

  Mary Harron

  People, Trying, Filmmaker

  Source: www.believermag.com

• Americans always think they have to lead. I'm interested in ambiguity.

  Mary Harron

  Thinking, Ambiguity

  Source: www.believermag.com

• 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.

  Mary Harron

  Thinking, Years, Perspective

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

• 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.

  Mary Harron

  Thinking, Done, Way

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

• I'm not trying to make the world a better place.

  Mary Harron

  Trying, World, Better Place

  Interview with Anisse Gross, believermag.com. March 2014.

• It's hard when your first thing is something everyone loves. Actually, that never happened to me. I was lucky that my first film, which is actually the best reviewed of all my films, didn't have that success.

  Mary Harron

  Love Actually, Lucky, Firsts

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.