Not wanting anyone to pop my bubble by speaking to me, I immediately began reading Lesbian Nuns, and that did the trick. No one attempted small talk.

People vomitied at my movies; not because of the movie but because they were drunk. I took credit anyway.

What happened is that in the middle of my life I went away and in my own sense of hubris, pride, cynicism, thought, I am an autonomous being in the world, I can control things, I am God.' But my experiment at being God failed! And they do have a great saying in AA: 'Get down off the cross, we need the wood!' And the important thing is to realise you are not the centre of the universe, you are not God.

I make independent movies. I don't know how to do anything else. I don't know any other job that I could really get.

I care about the presidential elections. I always vote. Sometimes I've voted more than once, illegally. But you can't anymore. The picture ID has ruined everything.

If your kid comes out of the bedroom and says he just shut down the government, it seems to me he should at least have an outfit for that.

I don't like heroin, unless you're a jazz musician and then you have to be on it because jazz is the sound of heroin.