Quote:
"I was and am against the idea that films abstractly possess a gender and I was caught in the middle of a debate that I was unprepared to tackle. My films were looked upon as women's films and as lesbian works. I was programmed in Women's Film Festivals and became appalled that my films were only accepted by or deemed appropriate for half the population. Going against the predominate gender and sexual politics of the time, I wanted my films to speak to both men and women. (Perhaps by having the safe-haven of being embraced by the tide of 'women's films' I had the luxury of playing the young rebel filmmaker who wouldn't be labelled. Perhaps had I been working within a mainstream system, I would have found my filmic rebellion in B-movies or slasher/horror films.)"
-- Midi Onodera

Source:
Onodera, Midi. "Dishing It Out and Taking It." In By, For & About: Feminist Cultural Politics, edited by Wendy Waring. Toronto: Women's Press, 1994. (p. 143)