Growing up, I was lucky that my dad was never out of work. I was very fortunate in … - Mary Harron

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It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do.

Mary Harron

Growing up, I was lucky that my dad was never out of work. I was very fortunate in one way: that I never experienced real hardship, because my dad is this real dynamo. He was always working, so I had a sense of the ups and downs and endless disappointments, but at the same time I was never worried that we couldn't eat or pay the bills.

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I don't think there is any one route to directing. . . . Other than that I think you just have to think 'By any means possible' and take any job you can that will get you experience. I also did a lot for free. I got paid virtually nothing for my first film, but it changed my life.

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Punk rock, when I was a part of it, was called 'the underground. ' There was something very attractive in all the hidden places, the hidden histories.

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Mostly I'm just not American. I spent four years of my childhood here, but I think if you're Canadian you have a very different perspective. You don't think you're at the center of things.

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It never occurred to me to be a film director, partly because I hadn't seen a single film by a female director, but I liked the idea of being a writer moving to Hollywood and being unhappy; that sounded romantic and fabulous to me.

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I really dislike it when women reject feminism; that's ridiculous. I am a product of feminism. Without feminism I would not be making films.

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