You go to school to figure out who you want to be and how you can do it, and [maybe] I should have, because the films would probably be technically better.

I never rewatch the great films of my favorite directors because I'm afraid they won't hold up.

I came from a generation where women were almost deified, and like Groucho Marx's line, "I wouldn't want to be a member of a club that would have me as a member", I thought, "I wouldn't want to sleep with a woman who would sleep with me!" It took me a long time to work my way through that.

I've signed dicks, asses, parole cards, a colostomy bag while it was still pumping. A couple of years ago, I signed a bloody Tampax. That's one you don't forget. I'm not asking for someone to top that!

Irony ruined everything Even the best exploitation movies were never meant to be `so bad they were good`. They were not made for the intelligentsia. They were made to be violent for real, or to be sexy for real. But now everybody has irony. Even horror films now are ironic. Everybody's in on the joke now. Everybody's hip. Nobody takes anything at face value anymore.

Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?

Yeah, I know I should be fighting for gay rights, but who wants to join the army or get married anyway?