Deborah Kampmeier Quotes

United States, Film Director
November 21, 1964

Deborah Kampmeier is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and acting teacher best known for her films "Split," (2016) Hounddog (2007) and Virgin. (2003). Deborah began her career in theater as an actress after training at the National Shakespeare Conservatory from 1983–85, and has taught acting in NYC for the past 20 years at such institutions as NYU, Stella Adler Studios, Michael Howard Studios, Horizons and The National Shakespeare Conservatory. She currently teaches a Master Acting Class in New York City.

Also known as Producer, Screenwriter

It's terrifying to have a voice right now. It's so terrifying, and it's so essential.

Deborah Kampmeier
The history of silencing women is violent. And we feel that in our DNA. On a cellular level we know what it costs to speak our truth.

Deborah Kampmeier
- Speak
- Violent
- DNA

Only six percent of films are made by women. And so in that that paradigm, a woman making a film at all is a political statement. A woman speaking her truth creates a feminist film.

Deborah Kampmeier
- Women
- Feminist
- Speaking
I think when I work with actors it's all about a process of learning to be private in public, instead of performing in public. Which is what women do: we perform, especially our sexuality.

Deborah Kampmeier
- Actors
- Process
- Public
Female sexuality is presented in our culture as a male fantasy, which doesn't include the reality of the abuse, the pleasure, the pain, the power, the complexity of women's sexuality.

Deborah Kampmeier
- Pain
- Fantasy
- Sexuality