I can't tell the difference between the best and the worst 'cause I realize not everybody wants to have sex in the middle of a demolition derby race in the car.

Get on the fashion nerves of your peers, not your parents - that is the key to fashion leadership.

I'd rather have a daughter in a whorehouse than a son in the police force,' Esther used to rage to anyone who would listen.

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

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 respect everything I make fun of.

When I started making movies about weird people, I knew they were weird, I was infected with irony, and I wanted New York to notice.