Quotes by Marielle Heller - Page 2

Actually, Nicole Holofcener's movies have always felt really right to me. 'Lovely & Amazing' is a movie about women's bodies that I feel is so truthful and painful and real.
Marielle Heller / Film Director
Lovely
Nicole
Truthful
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My five-year-old, before the quarantine, joined a chess class in our neighborhood in Brooklyn, and my husband was learning to play so that they could play against each other.
Marielle Heller / Film Director
Brooklyn
Chess
Neighborhood
Five-Year-Old
Joined
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It's funny because you start watching Mister Rogers so young, it's sort of in this subliminal part of your brain. I think that's why people have such a visceral reaction to him.
Marielle Heller / Film Director
Subliminal
Visceral
Mister
Reaction
Rogers
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I remember the first time somebody classified me as a feminist. I was in fourth grade. And I remember thinking, 'Oh, is that what I am?' At the time, I just cared about equality.
Marielle Heller / Film Director
Fourth
Cared
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Becoming a writer, and then a director, was taking my creative life in my own hands, and wanting to have stories that I wanted to put out into the world - and I have fallen in love with directing.
Marielle Heller / Film Director
Creative Life
Life Love World
Directing
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Part of what I loved about exploring Lee Israel was she was a woman who was often overlooked and judged. And it was fun to find all the ways that I could sympathise and feel as though I was like her.
Marielle Heller / Film Director
Exploring
Judged
Overlooked
Lee
Sympathise
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I did not grow up in the 70s but in the 80s in the Bay Area, the child of hippies in Berkeley, so I felt connected to the place and the legendary things that had come before me historically that I'd missed.
Marielle Heller / Film Director
Bay Area
Berkeley
Legendary
Bay
Hippies
Historically
Missed
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One of the movies I know affected me was 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch.' I remember feeling like it was such a brave and scary and awesome movie, and it was so ambitious. I felt really connected to it emotionally.
Marielle Heller / Film Director
Emotionally
Inch
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I think there used to be more respect toward young people in movies. John Hughes really respects his characters and they're given their emotional weight. He does so even with kids, but especially with teenagers.
Marielle Heller / Film Director
Respect Movies People
Hughes
Respects
Teenagers
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I feel some responsibility, being one of the few women directors who are being given opportunities. Sometimes, that makes me want to take on some big franchise because I want to show people that women can do it.
Marielle Heller / Film Director
Few Women
Show People
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It makes white men uncomfortable that there aren't more stories about them because it somehow is perpetuating the idea that they aren't the center of the universe - and they wouldn't give up that position lightly.
Marielle Heller / Film Director
Perpetuating
Uncomfortable
Lightly
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I was so involved in my own life I wasn't even aware of what was happening in the outside world, but as I got older I was constantly reflecting back on my own teenagehood and feeling like I hadn't been represented.
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Outside World
Reflecting
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It feels like there are two very different parts to making movies. There's the making of it and then there's the putting out of it - and I like the making of the movies a lot more than putting it out into the world.
Marielle Heller / Film Director
Different Parts
Making Movies
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But the idea behind French hours is that instead of doing a 12 and a half or 13-hour day with a lunch break in the middle, you do a 10-hour straight day. Everyone kind of eats food throughout the day anyway on the set.
Marielle Heller / Film Director
Lunch
Eats
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With all of the bad things that are happening in the world right now, I think we need a message of togetherness and true unity. I believe that starts with personal reflection and then we can find kindness toward each other.
Marielle Heller / Film Director
Bad Things
Reflection
Togetherness
Unity
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I was in theater school playing Lady Macbeth and doing these great dramatic parts, and then I got out into the real world and was auditioning for commercials, and just not getting to do anything that felt remotely meaningful.
Marielle Heller / Film Director
Meaningful
Real World
Auditioning
Great World Doing
Commercials
Lady
Macbeth
Remotely
The Real World
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I don't look like the way we've painted directors in our movies and everything since forever. I don't look like an old white guy in a baseball cap. So, yes, there are always moments when people are surprised that I'm the director.
Marielle Heller / Film Director
Movies Look People
Cap
Painted
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The beauty of film is that you can get closer than you can in theater, you know? I come from theater, and I remember feeling like I was almost cheating when I would put the camera so close to somebody's face when I was filming them.
Marielle Heller / Film Director
Cheating
Closer
Filming
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Scott Frank and I are director friends. We met through the Sundance Labs and he's advised me on my first projects - I've visited him on set, we've shared first cuts with each other, and we're more like director pals than anything else.
Marielle Heller / Film Director
Frank
Labs
Pals
Sundance
Me Anything More
Advised
Cuts
Me More Anything
Scott
Shared
Visited
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Mr. Rogers would not make a good protagonist of a narrative film. He's without conflict, he's too far along on his journey toward enlightenment to be a good protagonist. Our protagonists have to be struggling with demons in a certain way.
Marielle Heller / Film Director
Conflict
Enlightenment
Narrative
Certain Way
Demons
Protagonist
Rogers
Struggling
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I think all the actors I've worked with knew that I was an actor. Like, I get into the dirt with my actors and we figure out the rhythm of the scene and how it needs to sound and what the blocking is, the way you would with another actor.
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Dirt
Rhythm
Blocking
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I was always seen as defiant. And I did know that as a kid. It just wasn't something that was stamped out of me. I often had problems in school where I would stand up to teachers or I would believe that something they were saying was wrong.
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Stamped
Stand Up
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It's advice I always give to directors when they're starting out: Take an acting class to really see what it feels like to be an actor. And I have always felt like one of my strengths as a director is that I share a language and a vocabulary with actors.
Marielle Heller / Film Director
Vocabulary
Acting Class
Strengths
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In some ways the nudity really makes people feel more uncomfortable because it's not nudity that is just making bodies look like sexy little pieces of body parts stuck together. It's much more blunt and real and there is not a sexy soundtrack behind it all.
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People
Real
Sexy
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I come from the world of theater, and I know Noel Coward's writing well. He has such a specific voice, and was one of the wittiest writers who ever lived, and you think of him in the same category as someone like Shakespeare who's just impossible to imitate.
Marielle Heller / Film Director
Coward
Imitate
Shakespeare
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I remember thinking when I set out to direct my movie that it was all about lenses and the shots you were going to get. Really, directing is about tapping into what makes us the most human, telling stories, emotions, and managing a group of empathetic people.
Marielle Heller / Film Director
Empathetic
Lenses
Shots
Tapping
Directing
Thinking Remember People
Managing
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I think acting helps me as a director no matter what. There is something about being reminded about the vulnerability it takes to be an actor and what I'm really asking of actors every day when I'm on set as a director that I think it's a really good reminder.
Marielle Heller / Film Director
Vulnerability
Good Me Day
Reminder
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I don't think I would have made 'A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood' had Trump not been president. I felt so desperately like we needed to see a model of masculinity that was kind and loving and emotional, and could be the antidote to this president that we had.
Marielle Heller / Film Director
Antidote
Beautiful Day
Masculinity
Neighborhood
Beautiful Day Beautiful Day
Desperately
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I do think there's probably a little more opportunity to direct in television, because there are just so many TV shows. In movies, it still feels harder to break in. I do hope that's shifting. The difference between TV and miniseries and movies is also diminishing.
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Tv Shows
Diminishing
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You live in an apartment in New York, and you think all the time about like, 'I don't even know who's living above me.' There are all these anonymous people in that window or that window or that window, and everybody has their own interesting life that I know nothing about.
Marielle Heller / Film Director
Interesting Life
Window
Life Time Me
Life Time Window
Anonymous
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I went to Sundance Labs, and I definitely watched my male peers from there have very different meetings than I was having, very different outcomes. You could tell there was a feeling that a young male director had this exciting potential and a young female director was risky.
Marielle Heller / Film Director
Labs
Outcomes
Peers
Sundance
Risky
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I remember my grandmother's husband dying. But I think I was older. I think I was 7 or 8 when he died. But I remember that being the first real person I knew who died, and I - and that my parents didn't let me go to the funeral. And I remember feeling like it was really unfair.
Marielle Heller / Film Director
Dying
Funeral
Real Person
Me Remember Parents
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I just don't want to ever make decisions based on something that I feel like I shouldn't do, or if it's a logical career step. It has to be something that inspires me. Because if it's not something that inspires me, then I'm not going to do it well. And that doesn't help anybody.
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Logical
Inspires
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I never thought I was going to make a movie about men. I've always thought we don't have enough movies about women, and if I spent my whole life making movies only about women, there still wouldn't be enough movies about women, so that's a wonderful thing to dedicate my career to.
Marielle Heller / Film Director
Life Men Women
Dedicate
Life Women Men
Making Movies
Wonderful Thing
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When you're directing, you look around and you think, everything I see is my responsibility. From the catering being on time to whether the clouds are moving the way I need them to move to whether this actor is giving the performance I want to whether the costumes are what they should be.
Marielle Heller / Film Director
Catering
Clouds
Costumes
Directing
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When I said yes to doing 'Queen's Gambit,' I was feeling burned out on directing and movie-wise wasn't sure what my next big project was going to be. So I said yes to doing this very different type of project that required a different skill set from me, sort of just to shake things up, if anything.
Marielle Heller / Film Director
Burned
Different Type
Directing
Required
Skill
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Showing a real human body and a woman who is looking at her body without shame - that alone is a radical notion. Showing a young woman who is honest about what she is experiencing and letting us into her most intimate, darkest thoughts, all of that is just promoting something that we don't get to see about young women.
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Body
Honest
Real
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Seeing yourself reflected on screen is a very important part of being human. It makes us feel less alone, it make us feel more connected to humanity. Women, gay men, and trans people for a long time have not seen themselves represented, so being able to show the complexities that we all have - just as complex stories as a heterosexual white male - is crucial for us to feel more human and have other people see us as human beings.
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Men
Gay
White
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