I have had to really grapple with the fact that, while I wish things could be different at times, I ultimately needed to experience the transformation that comes with pain and loss and sorrow. Karyn Kusama Read Quote
Polanski is a great example of a person whose personal life clearly has been just fraught with scandal and transgression and criminal acts. And yet, in ‘Rosemary’s Baby,’ I think he’s made one of the crowning feminist statements in film. Karyn Kusama Read Quote
I’m just hoping that as I get older, and as more and more movies get made by female directors, what we start to see is how, in the same way good male directors get a shot at creating interesting male and female characters, women do as well. Karyn Kusama Read Quote
It’s pretty gratifying to spend so long to make your first film and then feel like it got a lot of love – that was an incredible feeling. But there’s something very distorting about that much attention. It felt like such a double-edged sword. Karyn Kusama Read Quote
Sometimes evil is in the form of a malignant clown, and sometimes evil is in the form of policy and legislators, and sometimes it’s a grinning death mask and it has something more viscerally terrifying about it. Karyn Kusama Read Quote
We have to accept that making movies is a never-ending process of occasional progress, frequent setbacks, and unexpected curveballs being thrown our way. Navigating that process requires stamina, curiosity, openness, and creative fire. Karyn Kusama Read Quote
I feel like, generally, the golden eras of cinema seem to be in moments of incredible political turmoil and strife and struggle. Karyn Kusama Read Quote
The people in the decision-making positions need to be thinking differently about who to hire, and looking more unsparingly at their choices. Why give this person a break over that person? Why give this person a second chance over that person? I do think that’s where gender comes into play. Karyn Kusama Read Quote
That’s the most important thing for me is just figuring out how and if I’m growing as an artist. Karyn Kusama Read Quote
The best horror walks a line that’s completely on a psychological level, not needing the typical tropes of traditional horror filmmaking, then also having to tease out those elements in a way that makes the audience feel like they know what they’re in. Karyn Kusama Read Quote