I really dislike it when women reject feminism; that's ridiculous. I am a product of feminism. Without feminism I would not be making films.

It never occurred to me to be a film director, partly because I hadn't seen a single film by a female director, but I liked the idea of being a writer moving to Hollywood and being unhappy; that sounded romantic and fabulous to me.

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

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

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

At any age you can start over. You have to drop the idea of where you should be in your career. And you have to do without a lot of love. Not everyone's going to love you.

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.