Someone can be mentally ill, but if they are young and beautiful and their life is going well, people don't notice because at that point the cracks a….

I'm not trying to make the world a better place..

Bettie Page was the first person to do bondage as fashion, because for her it really was all about dressing up..

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….

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..

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

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….

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..

Some actors can draw from their own darkness..

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….

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….

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….

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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….

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