I think there are always going to be people who say, even if they are engaged in the movie, they just want… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
As bad as some movies can be, good movies are also possible, sometimes through the very heinous corporations we love to trash. — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
I'm strong-willed, but that doesn't mean I can't work with people if we're all in the mission of trying to make a… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
For me, there's something about a certain kind of genre film that has real potency in its emotional landscape. — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
If you look at most mainstream filmmaking, to be honest, some of these films aren't even asking questions anymore at all. — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
I think that there's something about short films that just kind of keeps your muscles sharp. — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
Making movies, even though it's a business, is also an art, and sometimes you don't hit the bull's-eye. — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
Claire Denis's 'Beau Travail' is one of Denis's greatest achievements. One of the most mysterious and beautiful endings in movies. — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
It's pretty gratifying to spend so long to make your first film and then feel like it got a lot of love… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
It's extremely instructive to realize that you cannot do everything. You need to delegate, to find experts, to consult with them. A… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
For me, I guess I feel like the notion of 'feel good' entertainment... I'm all for it, but I just think you… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
It is important to know what audiences might expect from their genre movies, but I think it is also important to not… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
Reading the script for 'Jennifer's Body,' I just thought that here was a script that really exposes the horror between girls and… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in dysfunction. I kind of realized in my first film that a character with so much rage that she… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
We have to accept that making movies is a never-ending process of occasional progress, frequent setbacks, and unexpected curveballs being thrown our… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
Somehow, even though you have less time and less money, the thing about making indie films is somehow you have another kind… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
I'm seeing more and more interesting horror come my way. More and more interesting thrillers and genre films are coming my way… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
I'm ultimately drawn to film many kinds of stories if they are sort of about unlocking the secrets of our human potential. — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
I am honored and lucky to be one of the first films funded by Gamechanger Films, a consortium of investors who finance… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
What might the world look like if we took some chances on the film-makers we might be afraid of? — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
The nice thing about movies is that you can sort of steer your audience toward seeing that there's discomfort, but there's also… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
I'd like to be making more films more frequently, but I do find that making movies, for me, has proven to be… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
I assumed a business like a film studio would behave like a business and still want to protect its own interests, still… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
I don't want to make studio films if I am constantly fighting to assert some kind of leadership within the process. I'm… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
If you look at most mainstream filmmaking, to be honest, some of these films aren't even asking questions anymore at all. — Karyn Kusama Copy Share
I'm really interested in violence. And I think there's an inevitably cinematic property that violence brings to the moviegoing experience. But one still has… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share
It's freeing to be able to consistently make creative decisions and ask creative questions of the team without feeling like, 'Does this make me… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share
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… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share
What fascinates me is that when we look at the history of women in politics, so frequently the women who get the farthest are… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share
I want people to leave the theater wrestling with the idea that our pain - physical, emotional, and spiritual pain - is more than… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share
I'd like to be making more films more frequently, but I do find that making movies, for me, has proven to be an extremely… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share
For me, there's something about a certain kind of genre film that has real potency in its emotional landscape. — Karyn Kusama Copy Share
It's hard to prep a movie in five days and shoot it in five days and cut it in barely any time. You don't… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share
What makes a lot of suspenseful films work is very, very particular points of view and very subjective use of the camera. — Karyn Kusama Copy Share
Somehow, even though you have less time and less money, the thing about making indie films is somehow you have another kind of resource:… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share
I think my narrative is actually pretty interesting if I step back from it and don't engage too much in it, personally or emotionally. — Karyn Kusama Copy Share
What I do think is really interesting is that, as I get older and more mature, I'm really attuned to how frightening this world… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share
It is important to know what audiences might expect from their genre movies, but I think it is also important to not give them… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share
