When I started making movies about weird people, I knew they were weird, I was infected with irony, and I wanted New York to notice.

I never thought I'd be 52 years old. I don't think that anybody at 16 thinks like that.

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

I think social justice is important. I think it's not fair.

Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?

I go to colleges all the time in America, and everyone's gay, and I think how can this be? And it's only in rich schools. In poor schools, nobody's gay.

The first real thing was Divine as Jackie Kennedy [in Eat Your Makeup]. His mother found the bloody Jackie Kennedy outfit in the boot of his car and said, 'What is this?" and Divine said, "I am Jackie Kennedy!" His mother just changed the subject; she didn't know what to say.