Mary Harron Quotes - Page 2

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• I think any big success is paralyzing. I have observed it in others.

  Mary Harron

  Thinking, Bigs

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• 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.

  Mary Harron

  Love You, Careers, Ideas

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• If you have had some taste of success, it's extremely addicting. I think the withdrawal from that is what's most devastating. I don't think it's the success that kills people, it's the withdrawal.

  Mary Harron

  Thinking, People, Withdrawal

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• I realized you can always make money; you just do a lot of things.

  Mary Harron

  Making Money, I Realized

  Interview with Anisse Gross, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• There's no need to be tragic or destroy yourself or jump off a cliff. That's no longer the paradigm I wish to follow, or that anyone should follow. It is not necessary to be tragic. It's bullshit that women can't have it all. Why not? Other people do.

  Mary Harron

  People, Bullshit, Wish

  Interview with Anisse Gross, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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

  Mary Harron

  Fashion, Dressing Up, Pages

  Source: susiebright.blogs.com

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• She [Bettie Page] was a traumatized person, but she did have an active sex life.

  Mary Harron

  Sex, Pages, Active

  Source: susiebright.blogs.com

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• 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.

  Mary Harron

  Thinking, Done, Way

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• Someone can be mentally ill, but if they are young and beautiful and their life is going well, people don't notice because at that point the cracks are almost imperceptible.

  Mary Harron

  Beautiful, People, Cracks

  "Interview: The Bettie Page Story". Interview with Susie Bright, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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

  Mary Harron

  Thinking, Ambiguity

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I was lucky with my first film because it had Warhol in it. That was the selling point.

  Mary Harron

  Lucky, Firsts, Film

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• There was a lot of anger among critics that I had not made a sexy movie.

  Mary Harron

  Sexy, Made, Critics

  Source: www.believermag.com

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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.

  Mary Harron

  Girl, People, Way

  Source: www.believermag.com

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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.

  Mary Harron

  Love Actually, Lucky, Firsts

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• When people see the conventions, they think they're going to get the straightforward genre - I don't give them that and they get mad. People see that and they think I don't understand the conventions because I'm not a good filmmaker.

  Mary Harron

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: www.believermag.com

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

  Mary Harron

  Thinking, Hollywood, Doe

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• The really important people in TV are not the directors; they're the writers.

  Mary Harron

  People, Important, Tvs

  Interview with Anisse Gross, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films.

  Mary Harron

  Art, Elements, Film

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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