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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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