Nah, I've done sex scenes before, you know, like in video.

It's impossible to make a movie out of 'Naked Lunch.' A literal translation just wouldn't work. It would cost $400 million to make and would be banned in every country of the world.

I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though I've been sometimes compared to those other guys. We're after different game.

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab.

If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it's obviously going to be a disaster.

Many wonderful, creative people have won Oscars, so if you win one, you're in their company.

The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.