Quotes

[on being considered a groundbreaking feminist] I hadn't thought at the time that I was a female in a male-dominated field. I wasn't aware of what you guys now call sexism. I never had any trouble with male crews, ever, or with anybody I dealt with, which was 99% men. I didn't have any experience as a feminist. If you choose to put me into the field of feminists or think I was or groundbreaking or something, okay, but that was not the truth of it as far as I personally was concerned.

[on Michael Findlay] He was a film nut. A true cinephile. He knew more about film history than anybody I've ever met.

[why she directed sexploitation films] I made these films for two reasons: One, to make money, which we did. And I liked to shoot as a cameraman. That's what I liked best, being behind the camera.

[feminism] I'm not a feminist. I don't feel responsible for any other woman in the world. I've gotten to where I am all by myself, and if anyone had helped me, it was my husband - and he's no woman.

[people who watch and admire her films] They seem to have deep psychological problems.

[on not considering her films "art"] I couldn't bring myself to say that. It was purely practical.

[on not liking to shoot sex scenes] Nothing sociological about it. I just found it kind of disgusting, physically. I was definitely more interested in the footage leading up to the sex scenes. The exterior shots and the dialogue scenes. When it came to the sex scenes I would just say: "Okay and now everybody screw." Then I would walk around them with a handheld camera shooting at will. I did not tell the actors what to do, I did not direct them. I just captured what they were doing.

[being a camera operator and editor] Yes, I loved shooting. And even more than that I loved editing. It's like a great jigsaw puzzle to me. You take a piece of this and a piece of that and put it all together, so it ends up looking correct. In all the pictures we made, there was never much footage, because we just couldn't afford it. In Hollywood, they shot over ten times more footage than they used in the final film. We shot 1.3 to 1. I did what I could to create a coherent story with what little we had. I loved editing and I still have my editing machine.