Callie Khouri

When I lived in Nashville, Tanya Tucker and people like that were coming up, and I'm sure that Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette were going, 'What's that noise? That's not country.' It's always been this battle where whoever comes up behind the reigning stars isn't country enough. There really is a lot more crossover now. ”

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

What I'm not about is exploiting women. ”

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. ”

To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights. ”

Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience. ”

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. ”

Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they don't care about movies. ”

I'm almost numb to misogyny at this point. It's just everywhere. ”

I didn't think of 'Thelma and Louise' as a feminist movie. ”