Quote by Ellen Barkin
When they make a womans picture, they treat it like a womans pictu

When they make a womans picture, they treat it like a womans picture. In the 40s, they didnt treat Joan Crawford movies like that, but as the big movies of their year. Im upset that theres no Terminator with a woman in Arnold Schwarzeneggers role. Because that would make just as much money. – Ellen Barkin

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Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women. – Ellen Barkin

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The way Hollywood portrays mothers – youre either all good and saint-like, or youre all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member. – Ellen Barkin

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For a number of years, Id been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But Id always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid. – David Fincher

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Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didnt make it. – Richard Pryor

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I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies. – Paul Thomas Anderson

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I dont make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them. – Jerry Bruckheimer

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