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

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.

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 very ambitious at a young age. When I was six, I would tell everybody that I wanted to be an authoress.

I'm not trying to make the world a better place.

I see that women still have self-doubt, and at the same time I feel like I see all these fantastic young women, and they all have ambition and are so focused on their futures. I don't think that's an anomaly anymore.

It's interesting that gay men and young women have been the twin engines of the Bettie [Page] cult.