I keep very close in touch with the fans - to see what they like. I'm very in touch with my audience; I get older and they get younger, which I think is the ultimate compliment. I think hitchhiking brought a few of them out! Even though all young people have never hitchhiked, all people my age did at one point in their life, they just don't do it now.

If you ever go home with somebody and they don't have books in their house, don't sleep with them. I think that's very important.

I want to be harder to reach, not easier.

The further away I am from water, the less well I do!

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

Baltimore never changes much. People aren't impressed by anything. It's great; it's not a trendy town.

I hate it when people say, I'm an artist. I think, well, I'll be the judge of that. And I don't think artist is a job description. It's a critique, a favorable critique, that someone else might apply to your work. I guess in the art world I'm not exactly a photographer, but I do use photography.