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

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.

Some actors can draw from their own darkness.

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

I realized you can always make money; you just do a lot of things.

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.

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.