Most of the people who are engaged in the subjects that I look into are pretty interesting. Whether its sex researchers or someone who's devoted their career to saliva or somebody who does research with cadavers, there's an inherent fascination in the subject matter of their work.

Since I was a kid, I've had this morbid fascination with dark and scary subject matter.

A woman is subject matter enough.

Because there are now online databases of federally funded research, and these databases are searchable by keyword, sex researchers have to be careful how they title their projects. It's become a simple matter, for those who are so inclined, to find and target researchers whose work they object to on religious grounds.

I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.

Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!