I mean, for years [my father] would been doing everything imaginable ... from speed to downers to you name it. I used to call that "changing seats on the Titanic," and I used to say that I myself was not only changing seats on the Titanic but dating the crew.

Tom Hanks was really great [the 'Burbs']. The director, Joe Dante, was wonderful. We filmed it here during the summer, every day at Universal. Even the food was good - I mean it was junk but it was really good. The whole thing was like some ideal summer-school experience. It may not have been the best movie ever, but it was certainly the most fun.

You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well I took masses of opiates religiously.

There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.

My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my adolescence.