Ever feel like killing somebody just to see if you could get away with it? Sure, you have. Everybody has little things that get on their nerves.

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

I actually think that my films are intellectual. I think almost everything I do is intellectual, but I would never say that, because that's a compliment. That's up to others to say about me. The same way, I would never say I do art. I think art is up to history. It's up to other people to utter that word. So I try to be humble.

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.

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

I don't believe in depression. There's no such thing. It's an invention. It's bullshit, it's a cop out.

I couch-surfed for years. But I always wanted to live in Baltimore; I still do. If I had to choose, it would always be Baltimore.