If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

Don't buy into the corporate mythology that's been rammed down our throats for all these years.

New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.

The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is dizzyingly brilliant. Mark Leyner is a hyperkinetic shaman, who flies the banner of rum and candy and writes like a one-eyed feral bandit. His new book is supremely original, delirious and synapse-shattering.

Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.

I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with 'A Christmas Carol' and you're getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.

I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.