“What I do in my films is very… I think very distinctively.
I think they are the films of a woman, and I think that they’re characteristic time quality, is the time quality of a woman.
I think that the strength of men is their great sense of immediacy, they are a “now” creature and a woman has strength to wait, ‘cause she’s had to wait.
She has to wait 9 months of the concept of a child, time is built into her body in the sense of becomingness, and she sees everything in terms of it being in the stage of becoming.
She raises a child knowing not what it is at any moment but seeing always the person that it will become.
Her whole life from her very beginning it’s built into her a sense of becoming.
Now in any time form, this is a very important sense.
I think that my films, putting as much stress as they do, upon the constant metamorphosis, one image is always becoming another.
It is what is happening that is important in my films, not what is at any moment.
This is a woman’s time sense and I think it happens more in my films than in almost anyone else’s…”
Maya Deren.
