My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.

Sometimes you fail your chemistry test and other times it's explosive.

If you ain't got socks, you ain't got much. But if you got 'em, you might as well pull 'em up. It's a statement of self-sufficiency. We should all be more self-governed.

In Hitchcock's movies you can see the storyboards and that's cool. It's nice to see a filmmaker be that prepared. Most filmmakers today have their heads up their ass, they're not nearly that prepared. He obviously had a right to say this is what I want and this is how we're doing it, because he was ready. Some filmmakers show up on the set and they don't know what they're doing. So then everyone has ideas and that makes a bad situation too. Be a director who's completely in control and yet no one knows it.

It's very gratifying that someone likes what you're selling.

If I had all the money in the world, I'd still make movies. But I'd want them to pay me in donuts.

A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.