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Television screenwriter

Callie Khouri is an American television screenwriter, best known for her work on the television series 'Bones.' Born on November 27, 1957, she has made significant achievements in the television industry since the 1990s.

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“Would you have a friend who talks to you the way you talk to yourself?”

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“The world will provide you with every imaginable obstacle, but the one most difficult to overcome will be the lack of faith in yourself. Leave it to others to have doubts about you.”

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“You can't do a movie without villains. You have to have something for the heroines or anti-heroines to be up against, and I wasn't going to contrive some monstrous female, but even if this were the most men-bashing movie ever made-let all us women get guns and kill men-it wouldn't even begin to make up for the 99% of all movies where the women are there to be caricatured as bimbos or to be skinned and decapitated. If men feel uncomfortable in the audience it is because they are identifying with the wrong character.”

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“Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they dont care about movies.”

Care Studios Don't Care Corporations Giants

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“I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.”

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“Always, in all circumstances, wear comfortable shoes. You never know when you may have to run for your life.”

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“We have a lot of women on the staff, obviously. It's a predominantly female writing staff and we hire the best people. It's not like we go we need more women or we need four women directing.”

People Needs Writing Four Female Staff

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“We get the best people we can get and it turns out a lot of them are women. I've said this before If you hire people solely on their merit you wind up hiring a lot of women. I wonder how many other shows even come close to our numbers.”

People Ifs Said Shows Turns Numbers Wonder Wind Merit Hiring

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“I don't see the country audience looking forward to an out male singer. There are rumors about people but no one ever confirms because there is a tremendous amount of money at stake.”

People Country Audience Amount Males Singers Stakes Looking Forward Rumor

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“Women who just don't like each other because the other one is a woman and "women don't like each other" myth - that's not interesting to me at all. How do you compete in the market place, how you stay relevant after many years of being in the public eye - all of that. To me, that's interesting and that's real.”

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“I remember when I used to have actual time to write and now you don't have time and you just do it. I think it explains a lot about television.”

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“By luck I mean, when opportunity meets preparation.”

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“You can point to a lot of women showrunners that have had long and successful careers. In terms of the kinds of movies that women can get made, as long as the business operates under this model of the first-weekend [box office] focus, with huge movies aimed at super-young audiences, it will be really tough for women to do something that really changes the landscape. Because honestly, until they figure out how to get grown women into the theaters on the first weekend, it won't change.”

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“My advice is that if you really want to be a screenwriter, get out here and be ready to take no for an answer many times until you find your way through it and are fortunate enough to get something made.”

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“It's a tough time for screenwriters right now, because fewer movies are getting made. I'm enjoying television so much. It offers opportunities for writers to be in a writers' room and work their way up. It's somewhat easier because there's more of a community. There are so many screenwriters with incredible stories to tell, so I hope there will be some kind of shift in the business where very few types of movies are now made by the studios. There needs to be different budgets for different audiences; not everything having to be a huge opening weekend.”

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“Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.”

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“If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.”

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“Kelly Clarkson is the most adorable person on the planet. She is just so nice.”

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“When you look around right now, Nashville is kind of going through another changing of guard; you're watching the Martina McBrides and the Faith Hills and all of them that have been the big stars for the last however many years, and the next generation is coming in: Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, those girls.”

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“I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.”

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“One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.”

People Way Support Nashville

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“When people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with me.”

People Knows Want Mess Mess With Me Thelma And Louise

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“For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.”

Made Loses Like You Independent Selling Made It Features Organs Luster

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“I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.”

Ifs Hard Would Be Feminist Deny Filmmaker Theme Sensibility

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“I don't think any studio - it was a long shot at the time - but I don't think any studio in a million years would make 'Thelma and Louise' right now. But there's so many other kinds of movies they won't make right now.”

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“I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.”

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“I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money.”

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“I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.”

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“Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.”

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“One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.”

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“The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was.”

Firsts Faces Millions Saws Heard Currents Crowds Shocked Early 20s

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“You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.'”

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About the Author

Born: November 27, 1957
Known for: Television screenwriter
Quotes: 32

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