Mary Harron Quotes About Film
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I was lucky with my first film because it had Warhol in it. That was the selling point.
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One of the secrets of being a great photographic model, as it is for a great film actor, is that you let the camera in. It's an intimacy that the model or actor creates with the lens, that then transmits itself to the viewer.
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It's hard when your first thing is something everyone loves. Actually, that never happened to me. I was lucky that my first film, which is actually the best reviewed of all my films, didn't have that success.
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It never occurred to me to be a film director, partly because I hadn't seen a single film by a female director, but I liked the idea of being a writer moving to Hollywood and being unhappy; that sounded romantic and fabulous to me.
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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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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.
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I'm bored by films that revolve around a trick. I kind of know if a film is right for me; all the most important decisions are made intuitively.
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My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films.
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People make films about all kinds of relationships, but they won't do these extremely intense platonic love affairs that happen between young girls. In a way they are more intense than anything else you ever have, and that's what I wanted to make a film about, though it was in the context of a horror film.
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I really dislike it when women reject feminism; that's ridiculous. I am a product of feminism. Without feminism I would not be making films.
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