Karyn Kusama

I don't want to direct a Marvel movie. I don't care about those mythologies.

— Karyn Kusama

I had no shortage of wild times in my youth.

— Karyn Kusama

Best advice: 'Just be yourself.' Worst advice: 'Just be yourself.'

— Karyn Kusama

I ultimately am probably a pretty anxious person.

— Karyn Kusama

I think I was a pretty anxious dreamer, maybe a fundamentally lonely kid.

— Karyn Kusama

I think being a young female star must be really, really pretty rough.

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One thing I don't do anymore as I've gotten older is that I don't make big blanket statements about whether or not…

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When I reflect on the losses I've experienced, I've come to believe that those experiences were transformative, that they shaped who I…

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I think there are always going to be people who say, even if they are engaged in the movie, they just want…

— Karyn Kusama

As bad as some movies can be, good movies are also possible, sometimes through the very heinous corporations we love to trash.

— Karyn Kusama

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

I love horror. It's funny, because 'The Invitation' never struck me as horror, but it's definitely that type of thriller.

— Karyn Kusama

I am a mother now, and I'm a mother to a son, and I want him to go into the world a…

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I've experienced a lot of successes. I've experienced a lot of failures. I've been able to get back up on my feet…

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That complacency and that willingness to give yourself over to a larger power structure is how civilizations destroy themselves. And I just…

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Sometimes evil is in the form of a malignant clown, and sometimes evil is in the form of policy and legislators, and…

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I think most women have to fight very hard for the opportunities they want, which isn't to say that most artists don't…

— Karyn Kusama

The short form, for those people who can master it - and I am by no means one of them - it…

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It's pretty gratifying to spend so long to make your first film and then feel like it got a lot of love…

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It's extremely instructive to realize that you cannot do everything. You need to delegate, to find experts, to consult with them. A…

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What kind of world is it if we allow people who are violent and do terrible things off the hook? What does…

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It's very difficult to figure out, for me, what stops really talented young female filmmakers from having the kind of careers that…

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Women still routinely get passed over when everyone sits around the table and says, "What's our list of 10, 20, 30 directors…

— Karyn Kusama

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

What I'm starting to really grapple with, as someone who likes to tell stories, is that humans more than any other animal…

— Karyn Kusama

I'm really interested in violence. And I think there's an inevitably cinematic property that violence brings to the moviegoing experience. But one…

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Motherhood is this sort of "curtain lifting" of tremendous power that we have individually as women. It's tremendously freaky to have a…

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I do think it's possible for me to go back to the studio, and for a lot of women filmmakers to be…

— Karyn Kusama

Pain - physical, emotional and spiritual pain - is more than just a condition that needs to be silenced, numbed or "fixed."…

— Karyn Kusama

To me, the thing that sets us apart from so many other animal species is our ability to ask questions, investigate, gather…

— Karyn Kusama

There's just so much lazy violence directed at women. But beyond that, lazy violence directed at humans generally. Just lazy violence.

— Karyn Kusama

For me, there's something about a certain kind of genre film that has real potency in its emotional landscape.

— Karyn Kusama

I don't get to make many features. It's not like that's something I can just snap my fingers and make happen.

— Karyn Kusama

If you look at most mainstream filmmaking, to be honest, some of these films aren't even asking questions anymore at all.

— Karyn Kusama

That's the most important thing for me is just figuring out how and if I'm growing as an artist.

— Karyn Kusama

Genre mechanics are really tricky because if you pay too much attention to the idea of rules of genre, it becomes pretty…

— Karyn Kusama

The genre of horror is really just a way to manage much larger, much more terrifying realities in our daily worlds.

— Karyn Kusama

It's important to tell meaningful stories and to find new ways to communicate those stories to people.

— Karyn Kusama

What makes a lot of suspenseful films work is very, very particular points of view and very subjective use of the camera.

— Karyn Kusama

I'm a director first and foremost, and I hope that the fact that I'm female is just one of the many things…

— Karyn Kusama