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This practice of skinny actresses donning fat suits is essentially the new and acceptable blackface in Hollywood.

Do we have to be rail thin to possess 'outer beauty' and sex appeal and to be capable of attracting lovers?

I hope the next actress offered millions to play the 'fat girl for the day' stops to think about this before she signs the contract - even if just to ask, like any professional actress would in any other situation, 'Why does she weigh 350 pounds? And why me for the part?' If the director can't answer these questions, don't do the movie.

From Allison Anders

Nowadays you don't get to see composition in a movie because nobody ever keeps the camera still long enough to see it. Actors don't have the thrill and the power of working with space.

From Allison Anders

When you're traumatized, you pick out one thing you remember more than anything else.

From Allison Anders

Nothing feels worse than knowing that people didn't see your movie. That they wanted to and the critics loved it but nobody knew where it was because it didn't do what it was supposed to do opening weekend. It used to be that independents were allowed to stay in the theaters, build word of mouth.

From Allison Anders

During the '90s, a lot of us in the indie film world were not making our money off our movies. We were screenwriters doing scripts for hire for studios.

From Allison Anders