It was never a question of, ‘Do I get to go and direct?’ It just made sense. Pollyanna McIntosh Read Quote
If I’m going to direct a horror movie, I’d have to be the one writing it, because I have to make it personal. Pollyanna McIntosh Read Quote
We live in a very masculine society, a very patriarchal society, still. So we also have the benefit of the experience of that society. We’re not coming from ‘women’s world’ into filmmaking, we’re coming from ‘the world.’ Pollyanna McIntosh Read Quote
Because the job is still really exciting, and I still get nervous on the first day of shooting. But all the nonsense that surrounds it – that can be on your own terms. Pollyanna McIntosh Read Quote
I didn’t find it that hard to channel the animalistic side of ‘The Woman’, I studied animals like apes and wolves, and researched how to throw off my feminine ways and just went out into the woods for a few days to learn how my body would feel if I had to do what she had to do. Pollyanna McIntosh Read Quote
It’s funny that for women in horror, we have to use the term scream queen, because there is no term for a villain in horror who is female and powerful. Pollyanna McIntosh Read Quote
If you met me in London, you might be appalled at how English I sounded. Pollyanna McIntosh Read Quote
But if you are young and want to work in the fashion industry and are not naturally skinny – which most girls are not – then you are forced to be unhealthy. Pollyanna McIntosh Read Quote
