True success is figuring out your life and career so you never have to be around jerks.

I don't believe in depression. There's no such thing. It's an invention. It's bullshit, it's a cop out.

[My catholic education] sticked with me. It caused the rage I had to make 'Pink Flamingos.'

I want to be harder to reach, not easier.

I'm thrilled to have a completely new audience that I can get from Court TV, without it being my own trial. That was the only other way I would have gotten it.

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

I just went to Times Square and the underground movies, sometimes three a day. I did get my education. But I really believed then, in 1966, they would not have allowed me to make any of the movies I made. Today, you could make a snuff movie at NYU and get an A.