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.

I make unpopular versions of popular things. I make a horror film and it's not a horror film. None of my genre movies function as genre movies.

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.

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

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

There's absolutely no point in beating yourself up. Focus on going forward.