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

I was very ambitious at a young age. When I was six, I would tell everybody that I wanted to be an authoress.

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.

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.

One thing I'm not is a moralistic filmmaker. I'm not trying to tell people what to do, and I'm not trying to lead.

They say that depression is anger you turn on yourself, and I think women do that.