Mary Harron

'Mary Harron' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Harron, Mary Filmography

• Play in Full Screen XX

  2015, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Anna Nicole

  2013, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Armani

  2012, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Armani

  2012, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Don't Ask, Don't Tell

  2011, role: miscellaneous crew
• Play in Full Screen The Moth Diaries

  2011, role: director
• Play in Full Screen The Moth Diaries

  2011, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Sonnet for a Towncar

  2010, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Sonnet for a Towncar

  2010, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Sonnet for a Towncar

  2010, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Holding Fast

  2008, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Holding Fast

  2008, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Holding Fast

  2008, role: director
• Play in Full Screen This Film Is Not Yet Rated

  2006, role: actress , character name: Herself - Director of 'American Psycho'
• Play in Full Screen The Notorious Bettie Page

  2005, role: director
• Play in Full Screen The Notorious Bettie Page

  2005, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Punk: Attitude

  2005, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen The Notorious Bettie Page

  2005, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen American Psycho: From Book to Screen

  2005, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen In the Company of Women

  2004, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Hollywood High

  2003, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Independent View

  2002, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen The Weather Underground

  2002, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen The Making of 'American Psycho'

  2000, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen American Psycho

  2000, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Sonic Cinema

  2000, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen American Psycho

  2000, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Still Tickin': The Return of A Clockwork Orange

  2000, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen I Shot Andy Warhol

  1996, role: director
• Play in Full Screen I Shot Andy Warhol

  1996, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Winds of Change

  1994, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Edge

  1991, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Andy Warhol

  1987, role: miscellaneous crew

Harron, Mary Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Hearts of the World

  1918, role: actress , character name: A Wounded Girl

Famous quotes by Mary Harron:

"At first we thought there wasn't enough material to make a feature film."

"All women's history is hidden to some degree."

"I'm quite optimistic, but I feel we do need more female producers, more female cinematographers and such, just to make a better working environment among predominantly male crews."

"I like subjects that are enigmatic and contradictory, ... And Bettie expressed these interesting contradictions between something we associate with shame and sexual oppression, something sinister, something hidden, powerful, decadent — the bondage imagery — and then her own spirit, which was wholesome and happy and joyful. And by expressing that joyfulness she made [the photos] seem fun and playful."

"I'm quite optimistic, but I feel we do need more female producers, more female cinematographers and such, just to make a better working environment among predominantly male crews,"

"We have all these movies from the '50s, but they're told from such a male perspective and such a '50s ideology. You wouldn't see Bettie's story from her point of view. People wouldn't be interested in what it was really like or take her story at face value, ... Films from that time are hilarious because of their complete condemnation of any kind of female initiative or ambition. It was such a contradictory world that even the law itself didn't have a clear handle on it.... I really wanted to get across that moment in time of naiveté, fear and panic."

"We haven't faced that yet, ... I don't know what's going to happen. The scene when she takes all of her clothes off — the movie is so much about what is the fear of sex, and Bettie's whole career is about showing her body. [She is famous for posing] naked in the Garden of Eden, and she is famous for the bondage, the clothes, the gear. You have to have that contrast. You had to show what everyone is afraid of. That's the heart of the movie. To lose that would be very hard."

"Certainly, I've always been attracted to that. 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,"

"She was very much of the period, ... A lot of people played it too sexy, in a very modern way. And I think Gretchen had a very instinctive understanding of the sexiness of a very different time. You have to go back before Playboy, before the outright, blatant sexiness to something more hidden, teasing, more of the nice girl. Naughty but nice."

"If I was telling that story in a '50s style, it would have been a melodrama, ... a story of 'An innocent girl falls into the seedy, sordid world of bondage and then sees the light and is born again.' If I were telling it now in an urban, sophisticated way, you would have a story about a girl who is a free spirit, who does these lighthearted bondage photos, then she crashes and she turns to religion — which would be the tragedy in the modern view, because it's so polarized now that people see any religion as representing the horrible forces of puritanism. I was trying to comment on the sad confusion surrounding sex at that time, present it in a complex way, and give her religion a fair hearing too."