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.

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

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

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.

Frankly, you're always up and down. You're successful and then you're not.

I'm bored by films that revolve around a trick. I kind of know if a film is right for me; all the most important decisions are made intuitively.

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.