I'd rather have a daughter in a whorehouse than a son in the police force,' Esther used to rage to anyone who would listen.

My photographs are not really about photography. They are about editing. I use photography but they are all taken from the TV screen. Anybody can do that, but it's the order I put the pictures in to try to create a new kind of movie, something that you can put on your wall.

If you're not sure you could love your children, please don't have them, because they might grow up and kill us.

When I started my goal was to make a successful underground movie. I started making movies in the mid-60s. Underground cinema then only lasted about two or three years.

I think social justice is important. I think it's not fair.

I hitchhiked at high school. My parents thought was a perfectly normal thing to do even though God knows I got blown a lot of times riding home from school.

No comedy should be longer than 90 minutes. There's no such thing as a good long joke.