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

People still come to Baltimore and say, "I didn't realize you made documentaries."

I don't know how I made those movies. I went out every single night, I smoked pot every single day. I drank. We did everything, but I never became a drug addict or an alcoholic. Other friends are dead, many of them. So many people in this retrospective...in Female Trouble, almost everyone is dead.

If you ever go home with somebody and they don't have books in their house, don't sleep with them. I think that's very important.

Contemporary art hates you.

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

My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career.