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.

Cinema can transform pain and trauma into something beautiful.

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.

The world isn't fair, Calvin.""I know Dad, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

Maybe what I need to be rescued from is the feeling that I don’t need to be rescued, for without a doubt this is the most difficult rescue of all.

In the world of mules there are no rules.

Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point.

America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.

Where we are going, I don't know. It doesn't seem to be the place that is important but the steps in between.

A revolution must aim at the destruction of the given order and will succeed only by asserting an order of its own.

If one is intelligent and applies himself well, what can he not accomplish? Even small bands of people, I have heard, have defeated whole armies.

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.