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 want people to leave the theater wrestling with the idea that our pain - physical, emotional, and spiritual pain - is… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
That complacency and that willingness to give yourself over to a larger power structure is how civilizations destroy themselves. And I just… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
It's important to tell meaningful stories and to find new ways to communicate those stories to people. — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
Our society is constantly creating this framework for girls to feel that their only worth is their appearance, and it's damaging on… — 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
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 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
I think that idea that sort of our emotional self and our emotional life is a faucet that you turn on and… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
What kind of world is it if we allow people who are violent and do terrible things off the hook? What does… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
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
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
