There's absolutely no point in beating yourself up. Focus on going forward.

Someone can be mentally ill, but if they are young and beautiful and their life is going well, people don't notice because at that point the cracks are almost imperceptible.

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

Bettie Page was the first person to do bondage as fashion, because for her it really was all about dressing up.

One of the secrets of being a great photographic model, as it is for a great film actor, is that you let the camera in. It's an intimacy that the model or actor creates with the lens, that then transmits itself to the viewer.

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

I just don't think I'm an ideological filmmaker in any way. I don't know how anyone could see anything I've done and see that.