Katie Holmes, Queen Latifah and Diane Keaton Recall Their First 'Mad Money' Paydays
By Scott Huver, Hollywood.com Staff
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Thursday, January 17, 2008
Callie Khouri
“When I sold Thelma and Louise, my first screenplay. For a number of years I had been in Hollywood, since 1982. I did this in '88, but in the time I had been out here I was waitressing, I started as a production assistant. I literally started as a receptionist at a production company, making $275 a week. Then I worked my way up to producing music videos--but still freelance music video producing is not the most lucrative job in the world. That is what I was doing when I wrote that script. Then when I sold that script all of a sudden it was like 'Oh, I can buy a house.' It was completely different. I went from not having to worry about making rent to actually being able to buy a home."
