The more that I see the sexism and misogyny that's coming at me from every direction, the less I think my films have anything to do with sexploitatio….

What I'm really trying to do is recreate classic Hollywood cinema and classic genre cinema from a woman's point of view. Because most cinema is reall….

Heterosexual women who've had long-term relationships see their man fall apart. They go, "I'm giving him my whole life - I'm giving him my love, I'm ….

We women have gained so many more things, but we lost that kind of sexual power, the glamour power. We still love women who can still do that in cult….

I think glamour is a female thing. I don't think that's a male fantasy. I think glamour's a female fantasy..

Every time I get criticism from people, I learn from it and what to do the next time so there are fewer misconceptions. I'm continuing to be socializ….

Cinema can transform pain and trauma into something beautiful..

No matter what I do, all people talk about is production design, whether it's not good enough or it is good enough. And I'm thinking: This is because….

Men's requirements of women are impossible and ridiculous and so destructive..

What I like about the '60s movies was that they were about women. They were telling women's stories. I think a lot of movies don't tell women's stori….

I think a lot of women who are celebrities and who are very beautiful have terrible problems with their men being very controlling. Women allow thems….

I base everything on my own life experiences as a female. I start from there, and then I look for characters and settings that I think are cinematic,….

Plenty of women say, "I'm just going to make myself into a sex object." But they often can't stay afloat doing that. They can't maintain their sanity….

I feel like that's how women feel in a way. You can get paranoid because everyone actually is a conspiracy to diminish your power..

I think women love glamour. I mean, not all women, but I think this is something that women share..

I've always loved movies dealing with the terror of a woman who doesn't really know her husband and finds out that he's a monster. It's one of my fav….

When men create movies about femme fatales, it really is always about how that female can destroy that male. It's not really about what's happening o….

Men in long-term relationships, we all know how they lose their mojo, they just completely fall apart. They feel like they're not even a man anymore,….

Anything anybody's used, a comb, a lock of hair, a drop of sweat, anything that comes from somebody's body has incredible magical power..

Women sometimes really love to look at other beautiful women on the screen. But they don't look at a woman the way a man looks at a woman. They want ….

I see being a woman in the world as a social problem. That's very urgently problematic in terms of it still being a man's world, and women's identiti….