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.

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

Growing up, I was lucky that my dad was never out of work. I was very fortunate in one way: that I never experienced real hardship, because my dad is this real dynamo. He was always working, so I had a sense of the ups and downs and endless disappointments, but at the same time I was never worried that we couldn't eat or pay the bills.

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

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

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.