I'm here today because of LSD. LSD gave me the confidence to be who I am today. Completely.

Many hundred-million-dollar Hollywood comedies aren't any good. They're trying to shock you.

Anytime you make someone laugh or satirize something, it's the best way to change someone's opinion because they're defenseless - they laugh, they listen.

I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?

I just went to Times Square and the underground movies, sometimes three a day. I did get my education. But I really believed then, in 1966, they would not have allowed me to make any of the movies I made. Today, you could make a snuff movie at NYU and get an A.

People who want to act rich when they're upper-middle class. They try too hard.

If I died tomorrow I've accomplished what I set out to do in my life. I enjoy making my movies, I enjoy doing what I do. I have a nice life.