Mary Harron Quotes

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• I really dislike it when women reject feminism; that's ridiculous. I am a product of feminism. Without feminism I would not be making films.

  Mary Harron

  Feminism, Ridiculous, Film

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

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• It never occurred to me to be a film director, partly because I hadn't seen a single film by a female director, but I liked the idea of being a writer moving to Hollywood and being unhappy; that sounded romantic and fabulous to me.

  Mary Harron

  Moving, Ideas, Unhappy

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

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• 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.

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• Some actors can draw from their own darkness.

  Mary Harron

  Darkness, Actors, Draws

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

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• 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.

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  People, Trying, Filmmaker

  Source: www.believermag.com

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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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

  Mary Harron

  Jobs, Mean, Thinking

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• 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.

  Mary Harron

  Rocks, Punk, Punk Rock

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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• In my early thirties I was working in television as a researcher. I was really stuck for a period of five years. I got to TV when I was thirty. I hated being a music writer, and kept wondering why I couldn't be doing the exciting things that my friends were doing in television.

  Mary Harron

  Years, Television, Tvs

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

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

  Mary Harron

  Thinking, Ambiguity

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I grew up interested in the underside of Hollywood, which I think David Lynch does really well.

  Mary Harron

  Thinking, Hollywood, Doe

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

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• 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

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• It's interesting that gay men and young women have been the twin engines of the Bettie [Page] cult.

  Mary Harron

  Gay, Men, Interesting

  "Interview: The Bettie Page Story". Interview with Susie Bright, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• I remember being really interested in the sad parts of Los Angeles, of which there are many, and knowing we weren't up in the citadel on the hill, but we also weren't on the bottom. I was very interested in the poetry of failure as a child.

  Mary Harron

  Children, Knowing, Being Real

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

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• 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.

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• Frankly, you're always up and down. You're successful and then you're not.

  Mary Harron

  Successful, Up And Down

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

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• 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.

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• One of the secrets of being a great photographic model, as it is for a great film actor, is that you let the camera in. It's an intimacy that the model or actor creates with the lens, that then transmits itself to the viewer.

  Mary Harron

  Secret, Cameras, Lenses

  "Interview: The Bettie Page Story". Interview with Susie Bright, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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