My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career.

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

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

I haven't changed - the public has. I'm an insider now, which is hilarious.

Once I had a shrink who said, "Your parents are the fuel you run on," because I was raised in the tyranny of good taste. If my parents hadn't taught me all that, I couldn't have made fun of it. So I thank them, and they were loving. It takes a long time to realize that they made me feel safe when I lived a life which was very not safe.

It`s great to be able to drive around and spy on people, which I do when I'm writing. People tell me the most personal things about their lives for no reason - on airplanes, everywhere I go. People just blurt out secrets. I'm not sure why. I think that they see in my films that nothing will make me uptight. I'm not going to judge them.

To understand bad taste one must have very good taste.