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.

My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films.

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

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

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.

I think any big success is paralyzing. I have observed it in others.

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 focused on their futures. I don't think that's an anomaly anymore.