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

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.

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.

I respect everything I make fun of.

I don't know how I made those movies. I went out every single night, I smoked pot every single day. I drank. We did everything, but I never became a drug addict or an alcoholic. Other friends are dead, many of them. So many people in this retrospective...in Female Trouble, almost everyone is dead.

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.

The further away I am from water, the less well I do!