If you have had some taste of success, it's extremely addicting. I think the withdrawal from that is what's most devastating. I don't think it's the success that kills people, it's the withdrawal.

I realized you can always make money; you just do a lot of things.

It's interesting that gay men and young women have been the twin engines of the Bettie [Page] cult.

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

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

When people see the conventions, they think they're going to get the straightforward genre - I don't give them that and they get mad. People see that and they think I don't understand the conventions because I'm not a good filmmaker.

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.