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

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

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

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

The good part of working in TV is it's like being a studio director in old Hollywood and approaching different genres. It's a chance to try out different styles.

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.

I had long periods where I couldn't make things happen, and then periods of enormous good luck. I guess the trick is to keep going in the periods when you're not lucky, when your stars are not aligned.