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

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

There's no need to be tragic or destroy yourself or jump off a cliff. That's no longer the paradigm I wish to follow, or that anyone should follow. It is not necessary to be tragic. It's bullshit that women can't have it all. Why not? Other people do.

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.

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

I wonder if Bettie Page original gay cult had something to do with the ironies inherent in her image, as well as her innate fabulousness as an image.

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.