I've been transformed by stories, and I think that storytelling is definitely sacred. I take it very seriously because my life has been changed, whether it was a movie, a play, a piece of writing, poetry, a painting.
Karla SouzaI would get very frustrated reading scripts that were bilingual but maybe not bicultural.
Karla SouzaThe patriarchal society has made women believe, first of all, you're only valid and valuable when you're young.
Karla SouzaThere's a lot of lies out there that we should catch and that have taken me a lot of time to sort of see, and reading up on it and getting educated on it. I'm reading a book that's about how images of beauty have hurt women along the decades. It's a very educating but infuriating thing to see, how we don't have equal opportunity because they're demanding so much more.
Karla SouzaI felt really strongly about this script [ Everybody Loves Somebody] because, like you said, it's a very specific way of life.
Karla SouzaSomething I was adamant about was that the movie [Everybody Lovess Somebody] wouldn't end with, oh, marriage saved [the main character]. They're married and she's OK. I was very pushing on having the ending be that she made an inner growth of healing so that she can then have the ability and the space to love and be loved by someone else, and that love is open-ended and doesn't mean they're going to get married tomorrow and all her problems are solved.
Karla Souza