If you can make someone laugh who's dead set against you, that's the first step to winning them over to your side.

Yeah, I know I should be fighting for gay rights, but who wants to join the army or get married anyway?

People vomitied at my movies; not because of the movie but because they were drunk. I took credit anyway.

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'll have pot in my home for guests - I'm polite! - but I don't sit around and smoke by myself, ever. Not like I did when I was young.

It was a mystery to me. To that awful black-and-white farm, with that aunt who was dressed badly, with smelly farm animals around when she could live with winged monkeys and magic shoes and gay lions. I didn't get it.

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.