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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they don’t care about movies. Callie Khouri Read Quote
One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other. Callie Khouri Read Quote
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 watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was. Callie Khouri Read Quote
For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it’s like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster. Callie Khouri Read Quote
I don’t think any studio – it was a long shot at the time – but I don’t think any studio in a million years would make ‘Thelma and Louise’ right now. But there’s so many other kinds of movies they won’t make right now. Callie Khouri Read Quote
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 Read Quote
