"He walked me home and made out with me. That was my second kiss and he got to second base too. Then there was Ben - he was my first dry hump." |
2 Days in the Valley. |
a very unique girl, a free spirit. I see all the beauty and childlike innocence in life. |
Action films have been very testosterone-driven, not that that's a bad thing. But there is an interesting sexuality that I don't think has been that well explored in that action world, which is something women could bring to that genre. |
After Monster, when I started telling people about this story, some people said 'Oh, you're doing another ugly film'. |
All we discussed (with Caro) was what is the truth of this woman and the life that she's led. All of a sudden, when you get the answer to the emotional side, the physical elements just come quite organically. |
And also it's a little bit of, the more they say, `No, you can't,' the more you say, `No, you know what? Yes, I can.' |
And didn't just happen in Minnesota, ... Anita Hill wasn't an isolated case. There are cases everywhere. And I don't think it's stopped. |
And the process is very physical, which is something I always wanted to do, since I came from a ballet background and I really like telling stories with my body. That was the challenge... . I don't want to keep repeating myself. |
because thanks to women like her, I get to work and live in a very safe environment. I respect women who come from harsher landscapes, where survival is much harder than in cities, because they don't wallow in self-pity. They have to survive, so they get up and move on. |
Besides, ... I’m not a big pampering girl anyway. |
But my natural inkling isn't really to go do those kinds of films, so I really wanted to go experience that and see what is interesting in that genre and what to do with it and come up with a female hero that wasn't the perfect heroine. She was very flawed and very dark. I liked that a lot about her. |
Elizabethtown. |
Head in the Clouds. |
Hell, I would be terrified if Hollywood showed up in my community and was going to pick a scab, ... The other thing was: 'How are the men going to be portrayed?' You have to understand what the men struggled for. At the end of the day, it was survival for both sexes. That doesn't justify the behavior, but in this community, this mine was the one thing they considered theirs and their fathers' and brothers'. The women were taking jobs in a community where there were no jobs to be taken. |