95 Quotes by Karyn Kusama

I grew up in the Midwest. I understand a sense of the small-town mentality, small-town social politics.

Our society is constantly creating this framework for girls to feel that their only worth is their appearance, and it's damaging on so many levels to so many people.

There's something about the girls and the boys who just live for the moment and don't think a second beyond their needs and the here and now that, ultimately, is pretty tragic.

I think that there's something about short films that just kind of keeps your muscles sharp.

I don't get to make many features. It's not like that's something I can just snap my fingers and make happen.

I just know I have so much to teach my child. And I just feel kind of like, what would our world be without mothers? What would our world be without mother love? I don't think we'd have a world.

I am a mother now, and I'm a mother to a son, and I want him to go into the world a feminist. I want him to go into the world with compassion for humanity.

I feel like, generally, the golden eras of cinema seem to be in moments of incredible political turmoil and strife and struggle.

When horror films are made in times of political strife, I think they're not made with an instinct to add to the chaos but to bring shape to it.