Dede Gardner Quotes

We have privilege in our hands as storytellers. We need to tell stories that reflect our world.

- Dede Gardner

I am pretty much a nerd, and I love to read.

- Dede Gardner

Not to age myself, but I remember vividly 'Schoolhouse Rock!' and entrust my grammar to it.

- Dede Gardner

We are being held hostage by the people we elect.

- Dede Gardner

We are a very youth-driven culture, and I don't really know why because wisdom tends to come with more years, not fewer.

- Dede Gardner

I think what I do for a living is a privilege, so at the very least, I'd like to think it can be a good time.

- Dede Gardner

Everyone has a salary. Everyone has hopes and dreams for where they can invest their money. Everyone wants to do the best they can with it, and they don't want to be subjected to any sort of predatory lending.

- Dede Gardner

I got into the movie business because of 'Days of Heaven.'

- Dede Gardner

I always loved movies as a child, and I love story. I got my degree in English. Film and story seemed, to me, the vector of the movie business. I really didn't know what 'the film business' meant, but I decided I wanted to be in it.

- Dede Gardner

If you believe that movies are alive and talking back to you, there's a point at which it's very obvious they're not finished.

- Dede Gardner

There are not grades of racism. There's racism.

- Dede Gardner

I treasure the dark hours in a theatre. But I don't think that, if a film does not reach the theatre, it is, therefore, not a film.

- Dede Gardner