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.

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

Movies are a commitment. They take years of your life and they have big consequences. That's one of the bad things about movies - you're stuck with the aftermath.

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.

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

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

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