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

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

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

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

It's hard when your first thing is something everyone loves. Actually, that never happened to me. I was lucky that my first film, which is actually the best reviewed of all my films, didn't have that success.

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.

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.