Kimberly Peirce

I like violence because I like looking at it and I like understanding emotional and physical violence and how they work with…

— Kimberly Peirce

If you're writing in the mainstream... Whatever that is - the norm. The norm is likely going to be funded because you're…

— Kimberly Peirce

You try to do as much as you can on set because practical looks cool and practical looks great. Until you get…

— Kimberly Peirce

The first thing a fascist regime does is burn books. To not have them around would mean to make sure they're not…

— Kimberly Peirce

If we educate ourselves, then the desire and need to have art as a part of our lives will happen organically. I…

— Kimberly Peirce

A good horror film is something that taps into something absolutely truthful about us - about what we want, about what we're…

— Kimberly Peirce

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."…

— Kimberly Peirce

Forget about Republican or Democrat - what about the kid in the middle of the country who wants to play the drums,…

— Kimberly Peirce

Art changed my life. I mean, I would say art saved me. I believe that it made me better at handling my…

— Kimberly Peirce

There are a number of times when we have found, there's a number of old-school special effects in here that are fantastic,…

— Kimberly Peirce

In The Shining, you love Shelley Duvall. You love Jack Nicholson. You're let into the intimacy of that violence and it's emotional…

— Kimberly Peirce

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.…

— Kimberly Peirce

I think there are a lot of writers who would never have an opportunity to make their work. Some presses rely heavily…

— Kimberly Peirce

I think it's always a challenge when you're telling a story that people know. But hopefully, good storytelling - well, there's two…

— Kimberly Peirce

I am a lifelong career artist, which itself is a bit of a miracle. It's really challenging to be a career artist.…

— Kimberly Peirce

If I even tell anything false, within one minute I have to come clean. And I think most people, even if they're…

— Kimberly Peirce

Chloë Moretz as Carrie has an inherent amount of charisma, the camera loves her, she's been acting since she's five, she's a…

— Kimberly Peirce

I think it's why we're able to look at with comic book stories or origin stories, why is it that we can…

— Kimberly Peirce

If you do really good storytelling, things that people also might anticipate and that they might have seen before - there's a…

— Kimberly Peirce

I don't make movies about issues. This is my same litmus test for all the movies I love: Is it a great…

— Kimberly Peirce