A biography for Marielle Hellerhasn’t been written yet.
“I don't think any movie is going to make some kid run out and have sex.”
“I was connected to the theater, it was my first love, where my career was focused, on interesting ways to tell stories.”
“I like working in TV, but my real love is making movies.”
“I'm a pretty busy director and it's pretty hard for me to have three months where I could just leave the country and go work on someone's else's project.”
“I went to Sundance Labs, and I definitely watched my male peers from there have very different meetings than I was having, very different outcomes. You could tell there was a feeling that a young male director had this exciting potential and a young female director was risky.”
“I hate the narrative that people have to be tortured in order to be good artists. I think it's a solipsistic view that people use in order to be selfish.”
“One of the movies I know affected me was 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch.' I remember feeling like it was such a brave and scary and awesome movie, and it was so ambitious. I felt really connected to it emotionally.”
“I just think good actors are the main reason to make movies.”
“Someone once shared a statistic with me about how long it takes women to make their second films. On average, it's three years for men and eight years for women.”
“I was one of those probably annoying little kids who was always putting on plays with my family.”
“Being a good actor is incredibly difficult. But the amount of responsibility is so much less on your shoulders than directing.”
“Sometimes we need pure relief. Sometimes we need pure escapism. Sometimes we need major reflection on some aspects of our collective unconscious.”
“You want to make movies about extraordinary people, but those extraordinary people have to have a huge journey.”
“When I do interviews about movies I direct, I often talk about how my superpower as a director is that I'm an actor. I can talk to actors. I'm not afraid of actors.”
“I was so involved in my own life I wasn't even aware of what was happening in the outside world, but as I got older I was constantly reflecting back on my own teenagehood and feeling like I hadn't been represented.”
“And he doesn't really - it's never awkward when you're talking to Tom Hanks. I've never seen him have an awkward conversation with anybody.”
“I don't think we have to be jerks to make good art either, but somehow we as a society have romanticised that idea.”
“A lot of us love seeing characters on screen who say and do things we would never dare in real life.”
“I have a hard time with films that I feel like I can predict every twist or turn they take from the moment I start reading the script.”
“A lot of us as adults haven't learned how to cope with our feelings, deal with our anger or work through the pain of our childhoods.”