I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.

I'm not sure I agree with the thesis, because I think that even though something grotesque or gross has been part of film since way back, what we accept or what we can get away with on the screen is broader now.

Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof.

Well, actually, I did start out in comedies. Very, very early.

We got some devastating reviews on Animal House at the start.

I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.

I think if people want to see pure sex in the movie, they have the Internet and the extraordinary things are available.