Cinema can transform pain and trauma into something beautiful.

What I like about the '60s movies was that they were about women. They were telling women's stories. I think a lot of movies don't tell women's stories anymore.

I've always loved movies dealing with the terror of a woman who doesn't really know her husband and finds out that he's a monster. It's one of my favorite plots.

When men create movies about femme fatales, it really is always about how that female can destroy that male. It's not really about what's happening on the interior of that female.

Men's requirements of women are impossible and ridiculous and so destructive.

I feel like that's how women feel in a way. You can get paranoid because everyone actually is a conspiracy to diminish your power.

Anything anybody's used, a comb, a lock of hair, a drop of sweat, anything that comes from somebody's body has incredible magical power.

Every time I get criticism from people, I learn from it and what to do the next time so there are fewer misconceptions. I'm continuing to be socialized as a woman, but also as a filmmaker.

The more that I see the sexism and misogyny that's coming at me from every direction, the less I think my films have anything to do with sexploitation.

I think glamour is a female thing. I don't think that's a male fantasy. I think glamour's a female fantasy.

We women have gained so many more things, but we lost that kind of sexual power, the glamour power. We still love women who can still do that in culture.

Our natural desire is to be doing something

The woman, who is not the wife, has no right to receive the seed of the man, because it is the man and not the woman, who has to bear the responsibility for his seed.

It's hard to let go of something you never really had but, even harder when you know it’s everything you ever wanted,

A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.

In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments.

Today is the yesterday you won't remember tomorrow.

I feel as if my life had grown more outward when I can express it.

Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news