A biography for Anna Bodenhasn’t been written yet.
“I took a class my freshman year in high school called Intro To Film, and I was introduced to Robert Altman's films, and I wrote my first paper on a filmmaker and it was Altman's 'M*A*S*H,' and Nashville and I think 'Short Cuts' or 'The Player,' I don't remember.”
“When we approach characters, we don't have their full story in mind right off the bat. Through the writing process we raise questions about them, and we start to learn a bit more about them.”
“I think always whenever we're casting a movie, it's about sitting down with somebody and feeling in them some kind of the element of who our character is.”
“I think that what is exciting to us about 'Robocop' was this idea of a character who's finding himself and finding his past and even though it's a dark movie it's also extremely emotional in that way.”
“We like to create an atmosphere where people can try whatever they want and experiment. But ultimately people tend to fall on the script and there isn't a ton of improvisation. There certainly are some improvised moments and we encourage that. If it's better than what we wrote it'll be in the movie and if not, it's out.”
“We don't think there are simple answers about that why someone is the way they are.”
“With 'Half Nelson,' we went to Sundance and then we just bam, bam, bam, festival, festival, festival, festival and then we released in August.”
“My parents were basketball people.”
“People, whether they be male or female, are equally a mystery to me.”
“It would be great to be able to make a living by making films.”
“I think I was 10 when I saw my first R-rated movie, 'Stand by Me,' in the theater.”
“It's nice to have worked with someone for so long that you're always on the same page.”
“It's nice to work with the same people. You don't have to be polite. You know each other's likes and dislikes, and you don't have to micromanage and look at what they're doing every moment.”
“I think that the world of making movies and how movies get made has certainly changed and evolved over the years. So we're just trying to keep up with it and keep telling our stories in whatever way we can, by hook or by crook.”
“We knew a little bit about Carol Danvers, but we certainly hadn't read all the comics and didn't know all her history.”
“It always worries you when you give somebody the bug to pursue a dream that's really difficult to achieve.”
“Emotionally, I don't feel like a trailblazer at all.”
“There's always the challenge of trying to do a road trip picture with a big group of cast and crew, because it's just not efficient to go to every single place in the order that they would go.”
“I feel like directorial teams aren't quite as uncommon in documentary.”
“Especially as an independent director, when you're writing something on spec and you're trying to get it sold, you create this entire world in your head and you feel like you know every minutiae of how everything should be.”