I'm not a woman! Let's make that very clear! Oh I don't know, maybe I am. I am an American woman. Or 65 percent of me is.

I am very romantic about communism even still, but I know terrible things happened.

I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.

Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work

You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance

My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.

If there are some people that like the film and some people that do not, that's fine for me, because I do not intend to make very broad films.