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.

There's no need to be tragic or destroy yourself or jump off a cliff. That's no longer the paradigm I wish to follow, or that anyone should follow. It is not necessary to be tragic. It's bullshit that women can't have it all. Why not? Other people do.

At any age you can start over. You have to drop the idea of where you should be in your career. And you have to do without a lot of love. Not everyone's going to love you.

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

She [Bettie Page] was a traumatized person, but she did have an active sex life.

Mostly I'm just not American. I spent four years of my childhood here, but I think if you're Canadian you have a very different perspective. You don't think you're at the center of things.

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