I was in a very lucky position to be able to consider studio films and had decided to not go that route for a very long time until I read a script that I loved called 'Aeon Flux.' — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
Along with loving the script, the reason I did 'Aeon Flux' was because I needed the job, and I couldn't find $5 million to make a movie independently - after making a fairly successful movie for a million dollars. — 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'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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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
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 Image
I think being a young female star must be really, really pretty rough. — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
