If you ever go home with somebody and they don't have books in their house, don't sleep with them. I think that's very important.

I liked speed. I was on black beauties all the time. Nothing bad happened to me. I didn't become a drug addict because I always had to make a movie. We weren't stoned when we made them; I was stoned when I made movies up. I did them all.

Watching a movie should be like hunting. Out of context, every image of the cinema is yours for a split second. Take them before they bury it.

Ever feel like killing somebody just to see if you could get away with it? Sure, you have. Everybody has little things that get on their nerves.

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

I don't trust anyone that hasn't been to jail at least once in their life.

"How could you think of such awful things?" liberal critics always ask. "How else could I possibly amuse myself?" I always wonder.