Callie Khouri : (6)

" 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

" ‘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. " - Callie Khouri

" 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 more women would be hired as directors, but that didn’t really seem to happen. " - Callie Khouri

" 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 generation is coming in: Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, those girls. " - Callie Khouri

" With female-oriented movies, unless it’s something like ‘Bridesmaids’ or a romantic comedy, you’ve got to really worry about your opening weekend. And I’m always telling stories about women, not younger women, and it’s just a much tougher audience to get to the movie theater. " - Callie Khouri

" Political stories in general are tough. They just don’t appeal to as wide an audience. " - Callie Khouri