A lot of the best suspense operates on a careful withholding of information as opposed to the doling out of information. Karyn Kusama Read Quote
Along with loving the script, the reason I did ‘Aeon Flux’ was because I needed the job, and I couldn’t find $5 million to make a movie independently – after making a fairly successful movie for a million dollars. Karyn Kusama Read Quote
I do think there’s a preoccupation that women understandably have with this idea of the roles we’re meant to play and whether or not those roles serve us or ultimately kind of imprison us. Karyn Kusama Read Quote
I think we forget that part of parenthood means having to face and reject or face and embrace a kind of animal capacity for unkindness. And if, when, parents do embrace that, it reveals something very ugly to oneself. Karyn Kusama Read Quote
Sci-fi and horror, particularly, allow a storyteller to depart from, let’s say, the demands of cinema verite or kitchen-sink realism or, even, just relatable dramas and can go into areas that are either – in the case of horror – more primally effective or, in the case of sci-fi, more speculative or imaginative. Karyn Kusama Read Quote
The short form, for those people who can master it – and I am by no means one of them – it is very admirable, because it is really hard to tell stories that can stick with the audience and still be between 5 and 30 minutes long. I think it’s a real challenge. Karyn Kusama Read Quote
The genre of horror is really just a way to manage much larger, much more terrifying realities in our daily worlds. Karyn Kusama Read Quote
Somehow, even though you have less time and less money, the thing about making indie films is somehow you have another kind of resource: a human resource, where you can really look to your creative colleagues and actually ask questions that are honest. Karyn Kusama Read Quote
I think the crux of this urgent and real conversation about representation and diversity in art-making and storytelling both behind and in front of the camera ultimately has to do with simply seeing more human perspectives. Karyn Kusama Read Quote
What makes a lot of suspenseful films work is very, very particular points of view and very subjective use of the camera. Karyn Kusama Read Quote
