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I think that idea that sort of our emotional self and our emotional life is a faucet that you turn on and off, and that we are in control of it entirely, that's a really appealing idea for a lot of people. But there are certainly the times where it's appealing to me, but it never quite works the way I hoped it would.
— Karyn Kusama
Tags: people, you, me, life

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A lot of the best suspense operates on a careful withholding of information as opposed to the doling out of information.
— Karyn Kusama
Tags: out, suspense, information, best
The nice thing about movies is that you can sort of steer your audience toward seeing that there's discomfort, but there's also this sense of, 'Well, we'll tolerate this weirdness because maybe it'll be interesting.'
— Karyn Kusama
Tags: nice, movies, your, you
I'm ultimately drawn to film many kinds of stories if they are sort of about unlocking the secrets of our human potential.
— Karyn Kusama
Tags: our, potential, human, secrets
I think we forget that part of parenthood means having to face and reject or face and embrace a kind of animal capacity for unkindness. And if, when, parents do embrace that, it reveals something very ugly to oneself.
— Karyn Kusama
Tags: think, parents, ugly, face
What makes a lot of suspenseful films work is very, very particular points of view and very subjective use of the camera.
— Karyn Kusama
Tags: use, camera, view, work
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