There's absolutely no point in beating yourself up. Focus on going forward..

They say that depression is anger you turn on yourself, and I think women do 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..

I had long periods where I couldn't make things happen, and then periods of enormous good luck. I guess the trick is to keep going in the periods whe….

I make unpopular versions of popular things. I make a horror film and it's not a horror film. None of my genre movies function as genre movies..

The good part of working in TV is it's like being a studio director in old Hollywood and approaching different genres. It's a chance to try out diffe….

Some actors can draw from their own darkness..

One thing I'm not is a moralistic filmmaker. I'm not trying to tell people what to do, and I'm not trying to lead..

Mostly I'm just not American. I spent four years of my childhood here, but I think if you're Canadian you have a very different perspective. You don'….

I see that women still have self-doubt, and at the same time I feel like I see all these fantastic young women, and they all have ambition and are so….

Frankly, you're always up and down. You're successful and then you're not..

I really dislike it when women reject feminism; that's ridiculous. I am a product of feminism. Without feminism I would not be making films..

I think morale is the hardest part, not comparing yourself to someone else. I think everyone compares themselves to someone more successful than they….

Movies are a commitment. They take years of your life and they have big consequences. That's one of the bad things about movies - you're stuck with t….

She [Bettie Page] was a traumatized person, but she did have an active sex life..

I don't think there is any one route to directing.... Other than that I think you just have to think 'By any means possible' and take any job you can….

It never occurred to me to be a film director, partly because I hadn't seen a single film by a female director, but I liked the idea of being a write….

One of the secrets of being a great photographic model, as it is for a great film actor, is that you let the camera in. It's an intimacy that the mod….

In my early thirties I was working in television as a researcher. I was really stuck for a period of five years. I got to TV when I was thirty. I hat….

I just don't think I'm an ideological filmmaker in any way. I don't know how anyone could see anything I've done and see that..

It's interesting that gay men and young women have been the twin engines of the Bettie [Page] cult..