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

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

I was lucky with my first film because it had Warhol in it. That was the selling point.

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 writer moving to Hollywood and being unhappy; that sounded romantic and fabulous to me.

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 hated being a music writer, and kept wondering why I couldn't be doing the exciting things that my friends were doing in television.

There was a lot of anger among critics that I had not made a sexy movie.

I think morale is the hardest part, not comparing yourself to someone else. I think everyone compares themselves to someone more successful than they are. Everyone does it. You have to embrace your own rocky path.