Terrible things always seemed to happen to hitchhikers in movies - including my own. It has always been glamorous and dangerous and scary and sexy.

I haven't committed all the crimes in my movies, I would have gotten the death penalty many years ago if I had.

Just make sure your children hate authority and they'll do fine.

To understand bad taste one must have very good taste.

The only way I've learned to change anyone's mind politically is to make them laugh. My whole career has been about that.

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.

I understand why people want to look up their friends - usually they want to see what people they've wanted to have sex with look like.