"Mary Harron" is a Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter best known for her films I Shot Andy Warhol, American Psycho (film)/American Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page.

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I'm quite optimistic, but I feel we do need more female producers, more female cinematographers and such, just to make a better working environment among predominantly male crews.

At first we thought there wasn't enough material to make a feature film.

She was very much of the period, ... A lot of people played it too sexy, in a very modern way. And I think Gretchen had a very instinctive understanding of the sexiness of a very different time. You have to go back before Playboy, before the outright, blatant sexiness to something more hidden, teasing, more of the nice girl. Naughty but nice.

All women's history is hidden to some degree.

Certainly, I've always been attracted to that. Punk rock, when I was a part of it, was called 'the underground.' There was something very attractive in all the hidden places. The hidden histories.