Quotes

I've spent a lot of time working on Hollywood Boulevard, with industry clients, and you tell them, 'I'm a stripper, I want to write and direct,' and they're like, 'Uh, yeah, whatever, I want something from you, good luck with that.' So many people have said, 'Because you do this, you aren't going to be able to do that.' But what I say to those people is, 'Fuck you. Because look at where I am - and not in spite of being a sex worker but because of it.'

I liked playing a girl like Diamond because I'm very involved in the community and very politically involved and care a lot about what goes on with strippers in L.A. and beyond, but there's a huge subset of strippers who don't think about that. Just that type of girl who's there to get money and not to make friends.

[A]t the end of the day, Anora is a story about class. It doesn't matter in what ways they're similar - the rich have class solidarity in a way that poor people don't always.

Internalized whorephobia in the club. Or strippers who say, 'I'm not a stripper. I'm an exotic dancer.' The ladder of privilege. But the further you get outside of the club, the less safe it gets. Black trans women are so vulnerable, specifically, in sex work. We need to understand and accept each other, then reach out to the wider community as well.