I like violence because I like looking at it and I like understanding emotional and physical violence and how they work with one another... It's oper…

- Kimberly Peirce

I don't make movies about issues. This is my same litmus test for all the movies I love: Is it a great character on a great emotional quest with a gr…

- Kimberly Peirce

If you're writing in the mainstream... Whatever that is - the norm. The norm is likely going to be funded because you're giving people what they're u…

- Kimberly Peirce

If you do really good storytelling, things that people also might anticipate and that they might have seen before - there's a reason we go back to st…

- Kimberly Peirce

Again, let's pay all due respect to De Palma and put him over here so we're not saying, "Mine's deeper, mine's better." Let's just say, in reading th…

- Kimberly Peirce

There are a number of times when we have found, there's a number of old-school special effects in here that are fantastic, but there are definitely s…

- Kimberly Peirce

I think it's why we're able to look at with comic book stories or origin stories, why is it that we can keep retelling these stories over and over? A…

- Kimberly Peirce

A good horror film is something that taps into something absolutely truthful about us - about what we want, about what we're terrified of - and bring…

- Kimberly Peirce

If we educate ourselves, then the desire and need to have art as a part of our lives will happen organically. I would invite anyone to look at cultur…

- Kimberly Peirce