I don't make movies about issues. This is my same litmus test for all the movies I love: Is it a great character on a great emotional quest with a great emotional need? Do they overcome great emotional obstacles? Is… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
I like violence because I like looking at it and I like understanding emotional and physical violence and how they work with one another... It's operating in all these levels of hopefully - Oedipus is one of my favorite stories, that's like falling down a well when you read that - so that would be the hope, that each thing… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share
If you're writing in the mainstream... Whatever that is - the norm. The norm is likely going to be funded because you're giving people what they're used to and what they're gonna get. But anything outside of that norm is going to struggle to get funded. The people who are not "the norms" deserve the chance to make art. I… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share
You try to do as much as you can on set because practical looks cool and practical looks great. Until you get to a point where the reality is you look at it - and I went through this in my last movie which was a war film, which my brother fought in Iraq and I did a ton of… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share
The first thing a fascist regime does is burn books. To not have them around would mean to make sure they're not written in… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
If we educate ourselves, then the desire and need to have art as a part of our lives will happen organically. I would invite… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
A good horror film is something that taps into something absolutely truthful about us - about what we want, about what we're terrified of… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
Again, let's pay all due respect to De Palma and put him over here so we're not saying, "Mine's deeper, mine's better." Let's just… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
Forget about Republican or Democrat - what about the kid in the middle of the country who wants to play the drums, the kid… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
Art changed my life. I mean, I would say art saved me. I believe that it made me better at handling my life. — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
There are a number of times when we have found, there's a number of old-school special effects in here that are fantastic, but there… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
In The Shining, you love Shelley Duvall. You love Jack Nicholson. You're let into the intimacy of that violence and it's emotional and it's… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
I'm a writer who doesn't much think about money because money doesn't really care about me. In other nations, art gets subsidized. Writers aren't… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
