Cinema Quote by Karyn Kusama

If you look at most mainstream filmmaking, to be honest, some of these films aren't even asking questions anymore at all.

— Karyn Kusama

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

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

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

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

I want people to leave the theater wrestling with the idea that our pain - physical, emotional, and spiritual pain - is more than…

— Karyn Kusama

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

For me, there's something about a certain kind of genre film that has real potency in its emotional landscape.

— Karyn Kusama

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

I think being a young female star must be really, really pretty rough.

— Karyn Kusama

What makes a lot of suspenseful films work is very, very particular points of view and very subjective use of the camera.

— Karyn Kusama

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