American - Director | March 21, 1968 -
I have had to really grapple with the fact that, while I wish things could be different at times, I ultimately needed to experience the transformation that comes with pain and loss and sorrow.
Karyn Kusama
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We have to accept that making movies is a never-ending process of occasional progress, frequent setbacks, and unexpected curveballs being thrown our way. Navigating that process requires stamina, curiosity, openness, and creative fire.
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I'm ultimately drawn to film many kinds of stories if they are sort of about unlocking the secrets of our human potential.
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The genre of horror is really just a way to manage much larger, much more terrifying realities in our daily worlds.
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What kind of world is it if we allow people who are violent and do terrible things off the hook? What does that say about the world we're living in - it's like a world upside down, right?
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The people in the decision-making positions need to be thinking differently about who to hire, and looking more unsparingly at their choices. Why give this person a break over that person? Why give this person a second chance over that person? I do think that's where gender comes into play.
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It's pretty gratifying to spend so long to make your first film and then feel like it got a lot of love - that was an incredible feeling. But there's something very distorting about that much attention. It felt like such a double-edged sword.
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I think I was a pretty anxious dreamer, maybe a fundamentally lonely kid.
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Day-to-day concerns really trumped big dreams for quite a while in my life. I was so freaked out about money. And until, honestly, I was in my early thirties and made 'Girlfight,' that anxiety was a real issue: How are you going to live? How are you going to survive?
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I had no shortage of wild times in my youth.
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It's important to tell meaningful stories and to find new ways to communicate those stories to people.
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Making movies, even though it's a business, is also an art, and sometimes you don't hit the bull's-eye.
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