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

Movies are a commitment. They take years of your life and they have big consequences. That's one of the bad things about movies - you're stuck with the aftermath.

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.

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

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

When people see the conventions, they think they're going to get the straightforward genre - I don't give them that and they get mad. People see that and they think I don't understand the conventions because I'm not a good filmmaker.

I grew up interested in the underside of Hollywood, which I think David Lynch does really well.