Valentine's Day is my mother's birthday. If I'm wildly in love, I've sent people chicken hearts, which seems to appeal to the kind of person that I've been in love with.

So to make movies, if you're first goal is to make money, well you can! Make a tent-pole movie that China wants. But that's not the kind of thing that's really going to get your remembered. You're not going to change anything with that. You might become rich from it!

The "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" hitchhiker really made people never want to hitchhike again - the hitcher, the show. Hitchhiking is always vaguely sexual.

William Castle and Alfred Hitchcock were the first director-personalities. Before then, nobody in America knew what a director was.

Aren't maids the ultimate art critics?

Get on the fashion nerves of your peers, not your parents - that is the key to fashion leadership.

And I seek people who break rules with happiness — and not bringing pain to themselves.