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
I think that there's something about short films that just kind of keeps your muscles sharp. — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
Pain in all its forms is also a message, a kind of distress signal to our hearts and minds. There are times… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
There are times when I'm kind of anti-social, I'm just really shy, and I don't feel like I fit in, and I… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to figure out, for me, what stops really talented young female filmmakers from having the kind of careers that… — 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
Motherhood is this sort of "curtain lifting" of tremendous power that we have individually as women. It's tremendously freaky to have a… — 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… — 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
To me, the thing that sets us apart from so many other animal species is our ability to ask questions, investigate, gather… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
I feel like I don't see myself as all that different from other humans as a woman, but I'm surprised by how… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
For better and for worse, I feel like sorrow and grief are really transformative personal experiences for me, and I question what… — 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
I just know I have so much to teach my child. And I just feel kind of like, what would our world… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
I do think there's a preoccupation that women understandably have with this idea of the roles we're meant to play and whether… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Pain - physical, emotional and spiritual pain - is more than just a condition that needs to be silenced, numbed or "fixed."… — 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
