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.

Don’t sleep with people who don’t read.

It was a mystery to me. To that awful black-and-white farm, with that aunt who was dressed badly, with smelly farm animals around when she could live with winged monkeys and magic shoes and gay lions. I didn't get it.

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.

My films can be considered political action against the tyranny of good taste.

Well cult is a word you would never say in Hollywood. In any film business, if you're trying to get your next film made, you would never say, "Oh, my last film was a cult film." I'd say, "Oh great, well I hope this one isn't!"

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