"How could you think of such awful things?" liberal critics always ask. "How else could I possibly amuse myself?" I always wonder.

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

Fame is protection if you go to a scary place. Fame is fun. A lot of people don't say anything and you don't know they know who you are.

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

I make independent movies. I don't know how to do anything else. I don't know any other job that I could really get.

Coke didn't last long enough; it gave me a hangover for two weeks for being high for ten minutes.

Censorship has been my best press agent my whole life.