Allison Anders

“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.”

“I don't know that movies are important. But I know that stories are important. Movies may disappear. They've only been around, for God's sake, for the last hundred years... I think that it's the need to tell stories, and that people need to be told stories. It's the old sitting around the fire, you know.”

“I'd be just as happy being a midwife. That's my ideal job.”

“I was a single mom.”

“There's a persona that musicians carry with them. I like to find what's under the persona.”

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