Quotes by Mary Harron

Mary Harron

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

Ambiguity

Thinking

At any age you can start over. You have to drop the idea of where you should be in your career. And you have to do without a lot of love. Not everyone’s going to love you.

Careers

Ideas

Love You

Bettie Page was the first person to do bondage as fashion, because for her it really was all about dressing up.

Dressing Up

Fashion

Pages

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

Successful

Up And Down

Growing up, I was lucky that my dad was never out of work. I was very fortunate in one way: that I never experienced real hardship, because my dad is this real dynamo. He was always working, so I had a sense of the ups and downs and endless disappointments, but at the same time I was never worried that we couldn’t eat or pay the bills.

Dad

Disappointment

Growing Up

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.

Jobs

Mean

Thinking

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

Doe

Hollywood

Thinking

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.

Good Luck

Long

Stars

I just don’t think I’m an ideological filmmaker in any way. I don’t know how anyone could see anything I’ve done and see that.

Done

Thinking

Way

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.

Film

Genre

Horror

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Active

Actors

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Ambition

Ambitious

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Beating Yourself Up

Beautiful

Being Real

Better Place

Bigs

Bored

Bullshit

Cameras

Careers

Children

Commitment

Cracks

Critics

Dad

Darkness

Decision

Directors

Disappointment

Doe

Done

Draws

Dressing Up

Elements

Fashion

Feminism

Film

Filmmaker

Firsts

Focus

Gay

Genre

Girl

Giving

Good Luck

Growing Up

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Horror

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Quotes by Mary Harron

Mary Harron

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

At any age you can start over. You have to drop the idea of where you should be in your career. And you have to do without a lot of love. Not everyone’s going to love you.

Bettie Page was the first person to do bondage as fashion, because for her it really was all about dressing up.

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

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.

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

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.

I just don’t think I’m an ideological filmmaker in any way. I don’t know how anyone could see anything I’ve done and see that.

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.

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