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.

Americans always think they have to lead. I'm interested in ambiguity.

I don't think there is any one route to directing.... Other than that I think you just have to think 'By any means possible' and take any job you can that will get you experience. I also did a lot for free. I got paid virtually nothing for my first film, but it changed my life.

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

Punk rock, when I was a part of it, was called 'the underground.' There was something very attractive in all the hidden places, the hidden histories.

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.