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.

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

I'm a film director. Gay is an adjective that I certainly am, but I don't know that it's my first one. I think if you're just a gay filmmaker, you get pigeonholed just like if you say I'm a black filmmaker, I'm a Spanish filmmaker, I'm a whatever.

If your kid comes out of the bedroom and says he just shut down the government, it seems to me he should at least have an outfit for that.

Wealth is walking into any bookshop and buying any book you want without looking at the price tag.

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