If you become a star known for one thing, that becomes your thing, and you don't want that, on some DNA level.

- Ana Lily Amirpour

I don't personally do that many castings. But I did get involved in "The Bad Batch," because we couldn't think of an actress that was a 3-D embodimen…

- Ana Lily Amirpour

When I came up with the concept of 'The Dream,' on the surface he just seemed like another creepy bad man or villain. It had to be played by someone …

- Ana Lily Amirpour

I do feel that in modern society that still is the best way to survive. Whatever it is, just keep doing something, because complete stillness or inac…

- Ana Lily Amirpour

There's something to me with categorization - it stops you from thinking about the thing that is actually happening.

- Ana Lily Amirpour

Works like 'Brave New World' and 'The Handmaiden's Tale' develop their atmosphere from a movement or a revolution, as if the world has ended and has …

- Ana Lily Amirpour

As an artist, and for me personally, my biggest fear is categorization. I hate the idea that I would become someone who says that "this is what I do …

- Ana Lily Amirpour

The history and baggage of certain actors and characters - it goes into the movie and becomes part of it. If Keanu Reeves wasn't Keanu with all the t…

- Ana Lily Amirpour

I'm trying to figure out a way to find comfort in my life as a human. I'm trying to be good at being a human being. You get chopped up. Someone break…

- Ana Lily Amirpour