Megan Griffiths quotes

“I think feminism to me is the idea that women are equally important and their stories are equally important and just as entertaining.”
-- Megan Griffiths

Source : "Strong Women". Interview with Julia Edelman, logger.believermag.com. February 17, 2014.

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“It's difficult to make a movie about a complicated, non-traditional female character. We see a lot more movies with male characters who are at that point in their lives, but not that many about females.”
-- Megan Griffiths

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“I never heard the expression, "A strong man," unless somebody was in the gym lifting a heavy barbell. Why is there a difference between being an ambitious, driven woman or passionate woman and a passionate man? That is something that has come up a lot.”
-- Megan Griffiths

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“If you don't have a dream as an artist, you shouldn't be an artist, because you should be working towards something and trying to reach that always, whatever that is.”
-- Megan Griffiths

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“We are living at a time where there are so many films available to watch through so many formats all the time. It's hard for any film to stand out in that din.”
-- Megan Griffiths

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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“All any filmmaker can do is focus on creating something that has depth and resonance, and then do whatever possible to get it seen by audiences and hope the word spreads.”
-- Megan Griffiths

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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“My advice to any filmmaker would be to figure out what it is that you bring to the table. What makes you different? What is your voice?”
-- Megan Griffiths

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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“I think that until a filmmaker knows that about him- or herself, the films they make will just be copies of other people's work. It's important for anyone who wants to make films for a living, but I think perhaps it has an even greater weight for female filmmakers since they represent a much smaller percentage of the population. Their voices are fewer so they must be even stronger.”
-- Megan Griffiths

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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“You want your film to get seen by as many people as possible. I mean nobody makes movies for themselves.”
-- Megan Griffiths

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”

“Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.”

“Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.”

“It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.”

“The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.”

“My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.”

“I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.”

“When something important is going on, silence is a lie.”

“It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.”

Source : "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. July 3, 2016.

“Life is more important than 'what film I do next.”