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.

Don’t sleep with people who don’t read.

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.

My favorite characters are people who think they're normal but they're not. I live in Baltimore, and it's full of people like that. I've also lived in New York, which is full of people who think they're crazy, but they're completely normal.

I am on the road all the time. Whether I'm in Paris or in a small college town in Texas, I can't tell the difference, and that's good. You don't have to leave where you were born to be cool anymore.

I'd rather have a daughter in a whorehouse than a son in the police force,' Esther used to rage to anyone who would listen.

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