Contemporary art hates you.

Censorship has been my best press agent my whole life.

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

I haven't committed all the crimes in my movies, I would have gotten the death penalty many years ago if I had.

Life is a rotten lottery.

I think [parents] became very proud, even though they were mortified by the early films because no one liked them.

I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore. You can look far and wide, but you'll never discover a stranger city with such extreme style. It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay.