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

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

So many great people are dead, and so many assholes I know are still alive. Karma's bullshit. I wish it was true, but it ain't.

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.

The "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" hitchhiker really made people never want to hitchhike again - the hitcher, the show. Hitchhiking is always vaguely sexual.

I built my [early] career on negative reviews. There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square. They hated my movies. You could never have that happen today. Critics are way too hip.

Censorship has been my best press agent my whole life.