Quotes

[on working with producer Harvey Weinstein] Harvey made my film Love Crimes (1992) in 1991. I wondered why he wouldn't let me cast Natasha Richardson or Isabelle Huppert. He would only make the film with Sean Young. She didn't read Allan Moyle and Laurie Frank's edgy script until the first day of production and freaked out. It was rewritten every day, and not by me. In the chaos, I had no idea Sean would emerge in the #MeToo movement due to her dealings with Harvey. I saw nothing. My own battles with Harvey led him to brand me as "difficult" and tell me that he would destroy me if I took my name off the film. I ended up in "movie jail" - but that is nothing compared to what Sean must have endured. [Dec. 2017]

When I started Working Girls (1986), I wanted to begin with a whole different aesthetic that had to do with telling a story very simply. I didn't want to make a voyeuristic film, but I wanted to create curiosity in the viewer, almost voyeurism, about what it's actually like to be in a house of prostitution. [Feminist Studies]

[on Working Girls (1986)] I wanted to place prostitution solidly in the context of work as opposed to sex, since for prostitutes it is not about sex at all. Prostitution is a business transaction, pure and simple, between prostitute and John. [Feminist Studies]