34 Quotes by Pollyanna McIntosh

I feel that nudity can sometimes be quite distracting and take something away from a film because we're not used to seeing it.

I do try to do work I believe in and things I'm going to be proud of.

It was never a question of, 'Do I get to go and direct?' It just made sense.

If I'm going to direct a horror movie, I'd have to be the one writing it, because I have to make it personal.

We live in a very masculine society, a very patriarchal society, still. So we also have the benefit of the experience of that society. We're not coming from 'women's world' into filmmaking, we're coming from 'the world.'

I have that wonderful release of growing up and thinking, 'I can do whatever I want. I can prioritise for myself.'

Because the job is still really exciting, and I still get nervous on the first day of shooting. But all the nonsense that surrounds it - that can be on your own terms.

I've always had far too much emotion to be Scottish.

I'm not a fan of horror movies at all, I'm a real wuss when it comes to the genre and I think 'The Woman' would totally scare me if I hadn't been working on it.