Allison Anders Quotations

You end up giving up half your salary every time you make a movie because you need the money to make the movie you have in your head.

In 'Honeymoon in Vegas,' after Nicolas Cage tells his fiancee that he's given her away to pay for his gambling debts, she gets into a tizzy as if she were a 6-year-old. I couldn't believe it.

Movies can tell us about our place, or lack of place, in our culture.

Maybe women sometimes wish that a man would come along and buy them.

When 'Gas Food Lodging' was released, I had already shot 'Mi Vida Loca.'

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

It was such a struggle for me to make it off welfare. I was getting $630 a month for myself and my children with no support from their fathers. The rent was $600 a month, and if you got a job, they took it out of your welfare.

In the early '90s when the American independent movie started, it held personal vision as a premium. That was brilliant timing.

Because I came from the working class, I still identify with them. I don't identify with the middle class.

I was a big fan of X. I've probably seen 100 X shows during their time in the late '70s and early '80s.