Fifty years seems like a good anniversary. Even after I'm dead, how much better could I get than this? I mean, it's great, I'm not dead, so I get to see it.

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

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.

I don't like heroin, unless you're a jazz musician and then you have to be on it because jazz is the sound of heroin.

I didn't become a drug addict because I always had to make a movie.

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.

You have to think of a new way to completely surprise people who think they're hip. I always said you could make an NC-17 movie with no sex and no violence. Now I don't know what that could possibly be, but if you could think it up, you'd have a hit.