I am a lifelong career artist, which itself is a bit of a miracle. It's really challenging to be a career artist. I would say that the argument for grant funding is not only did my movie do some social… — 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… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
You try to do as much as you can on set because practical looks cool and practical looks great. Until you get to a… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
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
