Anna Biller Quotes
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Every time I get criticism from people, I learn from it and what to do the next time so there are fewer misconceptions. I'm continuing to be socialized as a woman, but also as a filmmaker.
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Men's requirements of women are impossible and ridiculous and so destructive.
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Cinema can transform pain and trauma into something beautiful.
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I've always loved movies dealing with the terror of a woman who doesn't really know her husband and finds out that he's a monster. It's one of my favorite plots.
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I feel like that's how women feel in a way. You can get paranoid because everyone actually is a conspiracy to diminish your power.
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What I'm really trying to do is recreate classic Hollywood cinema and classic genre cinema from a woman's point of view. Because most cinema is really made for men, how can you create cinema that's for women without having it be relegated to a ghetto of "chick flick" or something like that?
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We women have gained so many more things, but we lost that kind of sexual power, the glamour power. We still love women who can still do that in culture.
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No matter what I do, all people talk about is production design, whether it's not good enough or it is good enough. And I'm thinking: This is because my content makes people uncomfortable. It's a way for people to not talk about the content.
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I base everything on my own life experiences as a female. I start from there, and then I look for characters and settings that I think are cinematic, where I can use symbols and imagery to tell a story.
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I think glamour is a female thing. I don't think that's a male fantasy. I think glamour's a female fantasy.