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.

Frankly, you're always up and down. You're successful and then you're not.

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

There was a lot of anger among critics that I had not made a sexy movie.

When people see the conventions, they think they're going to get the straightforward genre - I don't give them that and they get mad. People see that and they think I don't understand the conventions because I'm not a good filmmaker.

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.

The really important people in TV are not the directors; they're the writers.