People make films about all kinds of relationships, but they won't do these extremely intense platonic love affairs that happen between young girls. In a way they are more intense than anything else you ever have, and that's what I wanted to make a film about, though it was in the context of a horror film.

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

Someone can be mentally ill, but if they are young and beautiful and their life is going well, people don't notice because at that point the cracks are almost imperceptible.

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

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.

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

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