And my little sister Chrissy, for teaching me that life is nothing if you're not obsessed.

You go to school to figure out who you want to be and how you can do it, and [maybe] I should have, because the films would probably be technically better.

I think that in America there is a new movement of underground movies that wants to kick the ass of independent films that they think whine too much.

I came from a generation where women were almost deified, and like Groucho Marx's line, "I wouldn't want to be a member of a club that would have me as a member", I thought, "I wouldn't want to sleep with a woman who would sleep with me!" It took me a long time to work my way through that.

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.

To use bad taste, you have to know the rules of good taste. I've always thanked my mother for that. She taught how to eat with proper table manners and all that stuff, to the point of rebellion. But I couldn't have rebelled from it if I didn't know it.

I don't think I had a bad influence on anybody. I made people feel better about themselves.