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

It's hard when your first thing is something everyone loves. Actually, that never happened to me. I was lucky that my first film, which is actually the best reviewed of all my films, didn't have that success.

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.

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

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.

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

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