Karyn Kusama

One of the things you hear about when studying the nature of fanaticism is that a lot of the time, people don't…

— Karyn Kusama

I don't necessarily believe that stories need closure. I just believe they need a beginning, middle, and end, but the end doesn't…

— Karyn Kusama

What fascinates me is that when we look at the history of women in politics, so frequently the women who get the…

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Reading the script for 'Jennifer's Body,' I just thought that here was a script that really exposes the horror between girls and…

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I want to make big movies - but I don't want to have to die a little death every single time I…

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I'm just hoping that as I get older, and as more and more movies get made by female directors, what we start…

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One of the uncertain pleasures of adulthood, for me, has really been about confronting how little I know about the world and…

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I'm very interested in dysfunction. I kind of realized in my first film that a character with so much rage that she…

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We have to accept that making movies is a never-ending process of occasional progress, frequent setbacks, and unexpected curveballs being thrown our…

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There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It's experiencing the…

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I was in a very lucky position to be able to consider studio films and had decided to not go that route…

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I guess because there aren't many women working in the kind of variety of spaces that I've had the opportunity and privilege…

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I don't think I could have had a better experience than I did with 'Girlfight.' It was a humbling experience to be…

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Somehow, even though you have less time and less money, the thing about making indie films is somehow you have another kind…

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I think that idea that sort of our emotional self and our emotional life is a faucet that you turn on and…

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Polanski is a great example of a person whose personal life clearly has been just fraught with scandal and transgression and criminal…

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The nice thing about movies is that you can sort of steer your audience toward seeing that there's discomfort, but there's also…

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I'd like to be making more films more frequently, but I do find that making movies, for me, has proven to be…

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I think the crux of this urgent and real conversation about representation and diversity in art-making and storytelling both behind and in…

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Always keep absorbing art and looking at paintings and reading books and watching movies in other languages, just getting to know the…

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It's freeing to be able to consistently make creative decisions and ask creative questions of the team without feeling like, 'Does this…

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The best horror walks a line that's completely on a psychological level, not needing the typical tropes of traditional horror filmmaking, then…

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I do think there's a preoccupation that women understandably have with this idea of the roles we're meant to play and whether…

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I would love to make lighter entertainments that have you sort of hopping and skipping and jumping out of the theater, but…

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I just know I have so much to teach my child. And I just feel kind of like, what would our world…

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'The Invitation' is a meditation on grief and loss carried within a suspense drama. At its core, it's about a dinner party…

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I assumed a business like a film studio would behave like a business and still want to protect its own interests, still…

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I don't want to make studio films if I am constantly fighting to assert some kind of leadership within the process. I'm…

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I think there is really something we need to examine about the notion of careers, and are women encouraged and given the…

— Karyn Kusama

There's something about the girls and the boys who just live for the moment and don't think a second beyond their needs…

— Karyn Kusama