My films can be considered political action against the tyranny of good taste.

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

I tried heroin. I shot up in high school, but I just thought it was so dreary: puking and nodding.

I don't trust anyone that hasn't been to jail at least once in their life.

I went to a Catholic high school, which, to this day, I could burn down. And I got great revenge because they had their fiftieth anniversary, andThe Baltimore Sun called me and said, ‘What did you think of your high school?’ And I said, ‘They discouraged every interest I ever had.’ And I saw that in print.

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

Nothing is more impotent than an unread library.