I grew up interested in the underside of Hollywood, which I think David Lynch does really well.

I think any big success is paralyzing. I have observed it in others.

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.

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

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.

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