A witch is a metaphor for a woman. When you’re a woman you always feel like an outsider or different in some way — abnormal — because the male is seen as the standard human being. That can be good or bad, like you can bewitch a man or curse a man, you can be put on a pedestal or burned at the stake. But I think men essentially see us as witches, and I wanted to go into how that feels, that experience of being treated like a dangerous outsider with every little thing you do. I feel like that especially when I’m directing, like people are looking at me askance because there’s a right way to make a film and I’m doing it wrong, and some more normal, reasonable person needs to step in and save me.
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