Quotes by Lisa Cholodenko - Page 1

I was very influenced by the films of the '70s.
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Influenced
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L.A. is conventional to a hyper-real degree. It's plastic.
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Conventional
Plastic
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I just think self-satisfied people ignore certain signs about other people.
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Ignore
Signs
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Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking.
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Clock
Pushing
Ticking
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Everyone on the planet has a dark and a light. That's a multi-dimensional character.
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Multi-Dimensional
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If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.
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Elements
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I've done episodic television and some other things that have been written by other people.
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Television
Done People Things
Episodic
People Done Things
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Boundaries get blurry and identities can get lost easily. It's easy to take your partner for granted.
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Boundaries
Granted
Identities
Partner
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I don't feel like my films are about gender; they are about identity - but a different slant on identity.
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Identity
Slant
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Making the choice to cast someone in a lead role is a big one. You don't want to squander your opportunity.
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Big One
Cast
Choice
Lead Role
Role
Squander
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I had a great love affair in high school and let myself have that love affair and tried to keep it to myself.
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Affair
Great Love
Love Affair
Love Great Myself
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I got exposed to art-house cinema and foreign films. I was from L.A., so it was a film culture that I didn't know about.
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Cinema
Exposed
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There's a lot of technology out there to help people have children in different ways, and later in life, for better or worse.
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Different Ways
Help People
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This whole Oscar thing is so political. It's about how much a film grosses, and who's in it, and how well it has been promoted.
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Gross
Promoted
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Not only does Annette Bening have a really lovely, deep voice, but she's also a great articulator. I think I'm more of a mumbler.
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Lovely
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I think for any artist, your voice is always evolving. For me, the constant is finding a tension or balance between drama and comedy.
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Constant
Tension
Always Your Me
Evolving
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I think I'm interested in these kinds of character dramas, psychological dramas, domestic dramas, whatever you want to call them - comedy dramas.
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Comedy
Psychological
Interested
Domestic
Dramas
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Along my path, I've realized that this comedy/drama balance is something that's really interesting to me, and I feel, like, authentic to my voice.
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Authentic
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I have enjoyed writing my own stuff, and it's been a privilege to be able to scrap some money together to be able to make films from my own scripts.
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Enjoyed
Privilege
Scrap
Scripts
Films
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I have a deal with HBO to develop television, and I am also developing a movie called 'The Abstinence Teacher,' which is based on a book by Tom Perrotta.
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Abstinence
Developing
Hbo
Tom
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In June 2002, I had just finished 'Laurel Canyon' and decided to move back to Los Angeles after nearly a decade in New York. Post-9/11 New York felt different.
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Finished
June
Los Angeles
Angeles
Nearly
Canyon
Decade
Los
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I'm in my mid-40s now, and I came out in 11th grade, so I must have been 17. So that's quite a long time ago, and the temperature and the culture was different.
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Long Time Ago
Temperature
Time Culture Long
Grade
Quite A Long Time
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The source of so much of my anxiety in life and the tensions in my relationship is my anxiety about my kid. It's all very abstract and unfounded and ungrounded.
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Abstract
Tensions
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I think when you're writing films that just come fresh out of your own imagination - I think probably anyone who's done that, there are certain themes or styles.
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Styles
Themes
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I don't know if my films are about women in a kind of frolicking - here's a grab bag of women's issues. They are about women of substance with very particular stories.
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Substance
Bag
Grab
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At the base of it, my gut instinct tells me that there's a kind of fundamental misogyny in the culture. There just is. You know, there's just a weird anxiety around women.
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Instinct
Women Culture Me
Base
Fundamental
Gut
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I feel like if you feel good about a script, and you feel confident about your ability to direct and just capture it right, it's all just, really, really in your favor there.
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Capture
Feel Good
Good Your Feel Good
Good Your Feel
Confident
Favor
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I feel like I've been observed as an individual more than a gay person, or as a filmmaker with a certain point of view rather than a lesbian filmmaker with a gay point of view.
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Point Of View
Certain Point
Observed
Lesbian
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I had a nutty career. I was living in New York. Then I got to an age where my friends and sister were having children, and I started to think I needed to orient myself towards a world where it could happen.
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New York
Sister
Having Children
Needed
Nutty
Towards
Orient
York
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I was going through some stressful stuff, and I lost feeling in my face and in my tongue. So I went to a doctor. He said he didn't think I had MS or a brain tumor. He said, 'I think you're just stressed out.'
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Stressed
Tongue
Doctor
Ms
Tumor
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I get asked why there aren't more female directors all the time. I'm kind of reluctant to talk about it. That's not because I think the question is irrelevant or stupid. It's just that there are so many mitigating factors.
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Factors
Female
Irrelevant
Reluctant
Stupid
Talk
Asked
Question
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I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.
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Core
Intimacy
Plot
Center
Dealing
Expressed
Films
Invariably
Relationships
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I was a student at SF State, and I honestly didn't know where I was headed. I thought maybe something in the social sciences. But I happened to be living with a group of people, and one person was a film student. I was always keen on and aware of what she was doing.
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Honestly
Student
Group
Headed
Sciences
Sf
Social Sciences
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There is a core value I wanted to illuminate: No matter what kind of family you have - straight, gay, married, single parent, separated, no kids, two kids, 20 kids, whatever - we all go through the human comedy. But if the bonds are strong enough, and the desire is there, you can get to the other side, still together and still a family.
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Parent
Single Parent
Bonds
Illuminate
Separated
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