Latest Callie Khouri Quotes from Interviews

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• You can point to a lot of women showrunners that have had long and successful careers. In terms of the kinds of movies that women can get made, as long as the business operates under this model of the first-weekend [box office] focus, with huge movies aimed at super-young audiences, it will be really tough for women to do something that really changes the landscape. Because honestly, until they figure out how to get grown women into the theaters on the first weekend, it won't change.

  Callie Khouri

  Successful, Weekend, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• My advice is that if you really want to be a screenwriter, get out here and be ready to take no for an answer many times until you find your way through it and are fortunate enough to get something made.

  Callie Khouri

  Advice, Enough

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It's a tough time for screenwriters right now, because fewer movies are getting made. I'm enjoying television so much. It offers opportunities for writers to be in a writers' room and work their way up. It's somewhat easier because there's more of a community. 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 everything having to be a huge opening weekend.

  Callie Khouri

  Weekend, Opportunity, Tough Times

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Women who just don't like each other because the other one is a woman and "women don't like each other" myth - that's not interesting to me at all. How do you compete in the market place, how you stay relevant after many years of being in the public eye - all of that. To me, that's interesting and that's real.

  Callie Khouri

  Real, Eye, Years

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• I remember when I used to have actual time to write and now you don't have time and you just do it. I think it explains a lot about television.

  Callie Khouri

  Writing, Thinking, Television

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• I don't see the country audience looking forward to an out male singer. There are rumors about people but no one ever confirms because there is a tremendous amount of money at stake.

  Callie Khouri

  Country, People, Rumor

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• We have a lot of women on the staff, obviously. It's a predominantly female writing staff and we hire the best people. It's not like we go we need more women or we need four women directing.

  Callie Khouri

  Writing, People, Female

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• We get the best people we can get and it turns out a lot of them are women. I've said this before If you hire people solely on their merit you wind up hiring a lot of women. I wonder how many other shows even come close to our numbers.

  Callie Khouri

  Wind, Numbers, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com